More Australian Goods For Netherlands E.I.
(Rec. 1 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day The Commonwealth Munitions Department has. begun negotiations to provide a wider range of goods in the next 12 months for rehabilitation of the Netherlands East Indies. The Netherlands Government is seeking goods to the value of about £10,000!000.
Announcing the negotiations. tiio Minister for Munitions (Mr. Makin) said he hoped to secure a majoi* pari of the orders for Australian manufacturers. Australia was already fulfilling export orders for Britain. India and New Zealand. Items included locomotives and rolling-stock components. steel rails, machine tools and electrical equipment. In 1944 the value of consignments to Britain of arms and munitions drawn from Australia's production was £3,500,000.
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Northern Advocate, 2 December 1944, Page 6
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