ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA
Commission To Be Set Up (Rec. 7 p.m.) CANBERRA, Sept. 29. The setting up of an Australian Aluminium Commission to conduct the aluminium ingot industry to be established in Tasmania is provided for by a Bill which has now passed all stages in the House of Representatives. The Commonwealth will provide £1,500,000 for the new industry and Tasmania will contribute £1 for £l. No part of the commission’s undertakings may be sold or disposed of without the consent of both houses of the national Parliament.
The Minister of Supply and Shipping, Mr J. A. Beasley, explained that hydro-electric power would be used for a Tasmanian smelter. A survey of Australia’s postwar needs of aluminium indicated a minimum annual consumption of 6000 tons, but this figure might be increased before the Tasmanian plant came into full production in not less than two years. The present session ends today and the Federal Parliament will meet again on November 15.
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Southland Times, Issue 25482, 30 September 1944, Page 5
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