AUSTRALIAN SHIPBUILDING
£6,000,000 TO BE PROVIDED. The provision of £6,00,000 by the Australian Commonwealth Government for “a substantial programme of merchant shipbuilding” has been announced by the Minister for Munitions (Senator Mcßride). He said the programme would be under control of a shipbuilding commission within the Department of Munitions. The commission would be appointed shortly, and would have power to enter into contracts and make all necessary arrangements. The chief problem before the commission, Senator Mcßride said, would not be the construction of hulls, but of engines and other equipment. Productive capacity, and not finance, would be the dominating consideration. The building of 14 ships between 4000 and 10.000 tons will begin almost immediately.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 March 1941, Page 5
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114AUSTRALIAN SHIPBUILDING Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 March 1941, Page 5
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