MERCHANT SHIPPING
PLANS FOR CONSTRUCTION IN AUSTRALIA
TO LIMITS OF PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY. SUM OF SIX MILLIONS PROVIDED (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright I (Received This Day. 12.10 p.m.) MELBOURNE. This Day. The provision of £6,000.000 by the Commonwealth Government for a substantial programme of merchant shipbuilding is announced by the Minister of Munitions, Senator Mcßride. The programme will be under the control of the Shipbuilding Commission, within the Department of Munitions. The chief problem before the Commission, said Mr Mcßride, would not be the construction of hulls, but of engines and other equipment. Productive capacity, not finance, would be the dominating consideration. The Commission would complete its investigations, already well advanced, into tiie types of vessels and tiie appropriate places for- their construction.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1941, Page 6
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121MERCHANT SHIPPING Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1941, Page 6
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