WAR MATERIALS
OBSOLETE AND SURPLUS STOCKS. DISPOSAL IN CANADA. OTTAWA, December 17. Announcing the personnel of agencies’ which under the direction of ‘ Cabinet, will administer the disposal of obsolete •and surplus war materials, the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, at a Press interview, stressed two points: (1) That the establishment of administrative machinery for disposing of surplus war materials was made necessary by the changing conditions of war and was in no sense an indication of any slackening in Canada of the total productive effort for war, and (2) that the machinery was required now to meet certain urgent problems, but that it was the. intention of the Government to submit legislation to Parliament next session to confirm the arrangements now being made. In reaching decisions on policy, Cabinet will be assisted by a committee known as the Crown Assets Allocation Committee. To effect the actual disposition of such surplus assets as the Government assigns to it a Crown company has been established and .is known as the War Assets Corporation Limited.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1943, Page 4
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