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GREAT STRIDES BEING MADE IN AUSTRALIA STATEMENT BY FEDERAL MINISTER. INCREASING OUTPUT OF PLANES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, October 16. Prominence is given to a Melbourne report that Mr R. G. Casey, the Commonwealth Treasurer, declared that by the end of the year twenty-one armament "annexes” will be operating in Australia and that the output of planes will soon be great enough to equip and complete a squadron every three weeks. Mr Casey added: “Australia will become an Empire arsenal, practically independent of outside sources for arms and munitions and the raw materials for making them."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1939, Page 5
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103ARMS PRODUCTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1939, Page 5
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