PLANS FOR FUTURE
AUSTRALIAN CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES
Just prior to the war, Australian Consolidated Industries Limited made arrangements for the establishment of many other new industries in Australia,' and for that purpose its general manager? Mr.;,A.- E. Smith, left for the United States and Europe. 7 He has received cable instructions from the directors to- continue "with the business mission, as a programme of industrial expansion was to be proceeded with.
Reports were recently current in Melbourne that all the glass products manufactured, by subsidiaries of the company,were to be advanced in price owing to; contingencies brought about through the war. The company officially described such reports, as incorrect, the only increase in prices being on: window glass, which had been advanced 8 per cent, owing to the increased cost of coal, timber for packing cases, felspar, freight, \ and war risk insurance. /All other products remained at pre-war prices. ■'.'■•
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 12
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148PLANS FOR FUTURE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 12
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