GUNS & MOUNTINGS
PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA NEW ORDNANCE FACTORY TO BE SET UP. PROPOSALS TO ABSORB UNEMPLOYED. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Dav. 12.20 p.m. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Minister of Munitions has announced that, the Government has decided to set up a new ordnance factory in Victoria, the capital cost, of which is estimated at £750,000. It would produce guns and mountings of a type recently adopted by the British army and heavier than those being produced in Australia for use in the field army. Proposals for bringing into wartime employment a large percentage of men still unemployed in Australia have been placed before the Government by the Federal Man Power Committee. Approximate unemployment figures for three States are: New South Wales. 30,000; Victoria, 6,000; South Australia, 3,000. The committee believes at least half could be employed in some phase of the war effort and suggests that unskilled men should be given some training to fit them for work in the munitions factories.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 6
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163GUNS & MOUNTINGS Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1941, Page 6
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