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CONSTRUCTION OF AIRCRAFT IN AUSTRALIA. Tly Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. SYDNEY. February 8. Sir Frederick Slewart. Minister of Supply, announced today that the Commonwealth Government will spend £25.000.000 on aircraft construction and maintenance in the next two and a half years. He said that an Aircraft Commission. probably headed by Mr H. W. Clapp, former chief commissioner of the Victorian railways, was being set up and the workshops under its control would have to keep 3000 machines in the air. Sir Frederick regretted he was unable to disclose the numbers and types of planes being built.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1940, Page 3
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