EFFECT OF THE WAR
SOME STRIKING FIGURES
(Rec. 9.5 a.m.) CANBERRA, Dec. 24. The latest official figures reveal these striking changes in Australian civilian life sinco Japan entered the waT: —
Building restrictions have closed clown on £45,000,000 worth of spending power. Clothing rationing has reduced purchases by £41,000,000. Liquor and tobacco sales show a decline of £10,000,000. In all 64 per cent, of civilian production, and consequently of civilian consumption, has been wiped out in Australia. Goods and services available for purchase by Australian civilians are valued at £152,000,000 less than before Japan entered the war. Men and women in Australian factories producing for civilian requirements before tho war totalled 540,000. Now there are 194.000. The number of Australian factory employees has risen simultaneously to more than 700,000, of whom more than 500,000, or 72 per cent., arc on direct war work.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 22, 24 December 1942, Page 5
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