POST-WAR WORKS
Priority Programme CANBERRA, August 23. The State Premiers ena-rsed, at a National 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 of 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 were 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 J. B. Chifley) gave an undertaking that the necessary special steps to expedite the release of technical men from the services to assist in planning postwar works will be taken.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23288, 25 August 1945, Page 5
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