EMPIRE INDUSTRIES
GROWTH IN DOMINIONS. GREAT INCREASE SHOWN. (Britlsn Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 4. A great, increase in the material resources available for the Empire wai effort compared with the last war is revealed by recent figures obtained from authoritative quarters which show that the Dominions and India now contain about 30,000 more factories than was the case in 1914, while the number of industrial workers in the Dominions has risen by 69 per cent. The value of industrial production of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa has risen by 170 per cent to a total of £398,000,000 and that of Canada alone is 156 per cent to 3,600,000,000 dollars.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 5
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110EMPIRE INDUSTRIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 5
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