Priority Programme For Post-War Public Works
(Rec. 1.15 p.m.) CANBERRA. This Day. The State Premiers endorsed at. a Na-’ tional Works Council meeting .an “A” priority programme of post-war works at an estimated cost of £192.889.000. The Premiers decided that no schedule cf national works agreed to by the council should be released for publication because it would be an embarrassment whenever any particular work could not be gone on with. An amount of £12,240.000 for housing programmes, for which the Commonwealth Government, has accepted financial responsibility, was included in the . Government loan programmes totalling £31.023.000. which wore approved by the Loan Council. In addition, a total of £3.348.000 was approved for semi-Governmental and local authorities. The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) gave an undertaking that the necessary special steps to expedite the release of technical *nen from the services to assist in planning post-war works will be taken.
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Northern Advocate, 23 August 1945, Page 5
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