ALBURY ARSENAL
AUSTRALIAN ORDNANCE DEPOT Recd. 6.45 p.m. Melbourne, Nov. 24. The existence of Australia’s greatest ordnance depot near Albury, at the junction of the New South Wales and Victoria State railways system, has been officially revealed. 'She depot, which covers more than 2000 acres of former bush land, has been built in the last two years at a cost of millions of pounds. Storehouses are paewed with tens of millions of pounds worth of material, representing the bulk of the United States lend-lease ordnance supplies. The depot also has a huge motor transport park. The inland site for the depot was selected at a time when an attack on Australia by Japan was fered to be imminent. Nearly 20 miles of spur lines have been built to accommodate trains from New South Wales and Victoria.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 279, 25 November 1943, Page 3
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136ALBURY ARSENAL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 279, 25 November 1943, Page 3
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