Steel From Australia
There will be a general wish that the report of the Minister of Works, the Hon. R. Semple, upon his visit to Australia in search of supplies of steel for the Dominion will prove to have been founded on fact.
This is not lo doubt Mr Semple's word but rather to focus, attention upon the great demands which Britain, India and other countries are making on Australia’s steel resources and upon the serious industrial upheavals in the Commonwealth, which, if they continue, may interfere with fulfilment of promises ■ made to the Minister.
It is good to hear that Mr Semple received an assurance from the authorities in Australia that they would
“keep our hydro-electric and waterworks developments going and those are the two things that concern us most.”
The Minister is apparently sanguine on this point, for though he declared that the world scramble for steel is terrific, and though “Australia is having great trouble at the moment,” he has come back “satisfied that that country is playing the game with us.” Clearly the times are out of joint, but the need for steel to carry out the big hydro-electric and waterworks schemes now in hand in New Zealand is so pressing that unless Australia is able to supply our demands unpleasant consequences are inevitable.
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Northern Advocate, 13 March 1948, Page 6
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