SECONDARY INDUSTRY
GREAT VALUE PROVED IN AUSTRALIA ADVERSE FACTORS OFFSET. PARTICULARS OF RECENT PROGRESS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. MELBOURNE, May 30. Only the existence of Australia’s secondary industries prevented the country from being confronted by a depression during the last 12 months, said Mr R. F. Sanderson, president of the Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers, at the annual meeting today. Mr Sanderson said bush fires, drought, the fall in export prices, the serious repercussions of New Zealand’s financial measures and war threats had been offset by the increased activities of the secondary industries. Recent world events had brought home to Australians the need for the development of industry to make the country self-contained. In Victoria, the most industrialised Australian State, 40 per cent of the employed population worked in factories and one in every three persons was entirely dependent on the secondary industries. Wages paid in Victorian factories last year totalled £96.000,000. The value a head of population was £35 in secondary production compared with £33 in primary production and mining.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 5
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170SECONDARY INDUSTRY Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 5
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