AUSTRALIA'S OUTPUT OF MUNITIONS
(Rec. 26, 12.45) MELBOURNE, Apr. 26. While admitting that Australia, in common with every other country, including Britain and the United States, was facing a general shortage of machine tools and skilled labour, Senator Mcßride, Minister of Munitions, denied to-clay that there was a tragic bottleneck in Australian munitions production. He pointed out that, from the slender foundation which existed before the war, Australia had built up a machinetool industry covering 50 firms, whe already had made available deliveries worth £2J-million. Senator Mcßride said that a recent British visitor had reminded him .that Australia’s present output of munitions was approximately a quarter of that of the United Kingdom immediately before the war, when rearmament had already commenced.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 99, 28 April 1941, Page 6
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