Finally, re setting ourselves: seriously to the building of ship In four of our States, the build smaller naval vessels such as patrol ships and destroyers is proceeding, and by the end of this year we hope to complete orders for 48 of these. But we are now equipping ourself to build merchant ships up to 10,000 ions. An initial sum of £6.000.000 has been set aside for this purpose: preparatory work is already well started, and the keel of the first si is about to be laid Time does not permit of my mentioning more than a few of the thousands of different articles that we are now producing for war requirements, For instance, we are now growing flax for the Empire and are about fo erect mills for processing it into linen, and we are preparing plans for development of our own resources of potash and aluminium, I think, however, the sketch I have given you will be sufficient to show that are aiming at a maximum we effort, and to that effort our Labour Partie have pledged 100 per cent One might summon: therefore by saying that the tempo is "full speed ahead" and that the watchword is "All out!"
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