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AUSTRALIA1
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Commonwealth Public Works Section.
I.
The activities of the Public Works and Services Section of the Department of the
Interior cover the construction of buildings and engineering works and the repair and
maintenance of buildings and engineering works required in connection with Common¬
wealth Services in the various States and at the Federal capital, comprising :
Postmaster-General’s Department.
Construction of post offices, telephone exchanges, broadcasting stations, installation
of mail-handling plant in G.P.O. buildings (Melbourne and Sydney), air-conditioning
plant in automatic telephone exchanges, but not including telephone equipment, workshop
and store buildings, etc.
Dejence Department.
Drill halls, barracks, mobilisation stores, explosives stores, aerodromes, hangars,
stores, workshop buildings, barracks and residences for Royal Australian Air Force
establishments, night-lighting equipment on civil aviation air routes and terminals in
capital cities; factories for manufacture and testing of munitions; fuel-oil storage depots
for the Royal Australian Navy; also barrack buildings, etc., for training and victualling
depots, including wharf and harbour works as required.
Associated with the foregoing are the incidental engineering works such as water
supply, sewerage, electric supply, roads, drainage, etc.
Health Department.
Quarantine stations, buildings for serum laboratories, institutes of tropical medicine,
health laboratories, etc.
Commerce Department.
Quarters and buildings, including wharves and store buildings, for the lighthouse
service, but not including the construction of lighthouses or installation of equipment.
Repatriation Department.
Construction of hospitals, etc., installation of heating, hot water and certain medical
equipment, etc.
1 Information additional to the reply previously sent by this Government and published in the
first volume.