DEFENCE ORDERS
No Cancelling In Australia CANBERRA. August 14. Australia is unlikely to cancel all defence orders with the end of (he war as the United States is doing. Australia is expected to receive a portion of the munitions orders necessary to maintain the armies- of occupation in Asia, and to restock her exhausted arsenals in the Dutch East Indies. Singapore, Penang and French Indo-China. These are considerations which will influence the War Cabinet when it meets in Canberra on Friday to discuss urgent policy changes affecting manpower.
Australia also is likely to seek orders for war and semi-war equipment among friendly nations in the near north. If these orders are secured, the transfer of men and women from munition plants to private enterprise can proceed much more smootl.’y than could otherwise be expected.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23281, 17 August 1945, Page 3
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134DEFENCE ORDERS Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23281, 17 August 1945, Page 3
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