AUSTRALIAN MUNITIONS COMMITTEE
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyriffht MELBOURNE, July 12. The second report of the Munitions Committee suggests a Government option to acquire shell-making machinery after the demand has subsided. It also suggests that the Colonial Ammunition Company erect a shell factory on these lines, and advises that tube and fuse, also a machine gun factory, be erected and afterwards incorporated in the Government arsenal. The report further urges the manufacture of gun cordite by the Government cordite factory and the manufacture in . Australia of high explosives. '■ AN EXPLANATION By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 12, 9 p.m.) MELBOURNE, July 12. Senator Pearco, Minister for Defence, explains that the delay in, utilising . the existing means for the local manufacture of munitions is entirely due to the non-arrival of specifications or the War Office’s approval.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9094, 13 July 1915, Page 6
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