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Abandoned War Supplies Help Industry

RECENTLY a specially chartered ship,, the Union Star, brought to Brisbane e £300,000 worth of heavy earth-moving? equipment collected at Guam, Manilla,, and Hong Kong. It was bought hy\ Thiess Bros., big earth-removing con tractors of Queensland.

A year ago every tractor now engaged! on the Callide open-cut coal-mine, inr Queensland, was rusting in the jungle ati Milne Bay. , . , „ In eight post-war trips by air to New?

Guinea, Mr. Les Thiess, governing direc tor of Thiess Bros., has inspected and! bought big stocks of equipment at Milnes Bay, Port Moresby, Lae, Manus Island,J the Solomon Islands, New Britain, andfc other wartime centres.