WASTE DENOUNCED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1943, Page 4

WASTE DENOUNCED

BY FEDERAL PREMIER NEED OF ORGANISING FOR LONG WAR. SELF-INDULGENCE STRONGLY ATTACKED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Emphasising the need for money to finance Australia’s war effort, the Federal Prime Minister, Mr J. Curtin, declared, in a fighting speech here, that all waste must be eliminated from all phases of life in the Commonwealth. “When you buy non-essentials,” he| said, “you are wasting the resources of this country—resources needed for the conduct of the war. This country has to face a long war —much longer than the war in Europe. I preach against waste because I know so much of it goes on, primarily because people prefer to spend their money in shops and on pleasure to giving it as a direct contribution to the Government for the war effort.” Mr Curtin revealed that the Allied merchantman sunk last Sunday by an enemy submarine was travelling in a convoy only a few hours’ sailing time from Melbourne. He also stated that Monday’s raid on Port Moresby by 105 Japanese planes failed because our forces were able to intercept them as the result of radio location. Mr Curtin said Australia had already spent £61,0000,00 on behalf of the American forces in this area. “Every gallon of petrol wasted, taking a car to a football match or a racecourse, is a gallon of petrol that one day might have stood between the bombing plane getting back to its base and not getting back,” said Mr Curtin, in concluding an outspoken attack on all forms of war time self-indulgence.