ON GREAT SCALE
RECIPROCAL LEND=LEASE SOME DETAILS OF AUSTRALIAN CONTRIBUTIONS. MR CURTIN GIVES IMPRESSIVE FIGURES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, November 29. The current Australian contribution to reciprocal lend-lease represents 11.4 per cent of the total Australian internal war expenditure. According to the Federal Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) contributions mounted to £78,700,000 up to August and are expected to exceed £100,000,000 in the current year. Mr Curtin said reciprocal aid was steadily expanding. In July and August it amounted to more than 13 million pounds. Reciprocal aid included foodstuffs, clothing, technical equipment (including weapons and ammunition), aircraft maintenance, transport and communications, as well as extensive works projects. Food supplies to the United States under reciprocal lend-lease had been about 150,000 long tons, while about eight million articles of clothing had been supplied.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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136ON GREAT SCALE Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 4
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