GREAT ACHIEVEMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1943, Page 4

GREAT ACHIEVEMENT

CREDITED TO AUSTRALIA WAR & INDUSTRIAL EFFORT VISITING CANADIAN’S OBSERVATIONS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) SYDNEY, This Day. Because of the nation’s war time accomplishments, Australia was entitled to play a big part in the peace conferences, said Mr Arthur Ford. Mr Ford is the leader of the Canadian Press delegation, which has just completed a 10,000-mile tour of Australia and will now tour New Zealand. Praising Australia’s performance in creating a great industrial machine from her internal resources, Mr Ford added that the production here of machine tools and aeroplane engines merited the admiration of all the United Nations. The Commonwealth’s importance in world affairs was far out of proportion to its population, but he felt that Australians lacked confidence in themselves and their future. Nothing surprised the visitors more than the Northern Territory, which possesses enormous possibilities. The work of the Army and the Allied Works Council had opened up a vast area with roads and airfields in a way that might not ordinarily have been possible for a hundred years. .