SECONDARY INDUSTRY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1943, Page 3

SECONDARY INDUSTRY

DEVELOPMENT AFTER THE WAR

PLANS IN AUSTRALIA.

COMMISSION TO BE SET UP. (Special Australian Correspondent) SYDNEY, August 14. A Secondary Industries Commission will be set up to examine the best means of developing Australian secondary industries after the war. It was the Government's hope to achieve within a reasonable time a condition within the Commonwealth’s industry that would enable Australia to make its most effective contribution to peace and the well being of all the peoples in this Pacific zone, said the Minister of Post-war Reconstruction, Mr J. B. Chifley.

The war had provided Australia with an unprecedented experience of engineering production, including the establishment of an aircraft industry with an output valued at many millions of pounds, said Mr Chifley. The optical manufacturing industry had been developed with an output that could compete with any in the world. Chemical production had grown beyond peacetime conceptions and food manufactures had been given an enormous wartime impetus, particularly in the canning and dehydration of vegetables and meat.

“The surest guarantee of continued industrial expansion after the wac will be the unflagging purspit of technical excellence and manufacturing efficiency,” declared Mr Chifley. “It will be the Commission’s function to examine a problem and submit plans as to the best means of ensuring this sound and progressive industrial development after the war."