LANDROVERS FOR BANGLADESH
NQ DATE
M/ 46 26 February 1973
IANDROVERS FOR BANGLADESH
Australia proposes to provide 190 Landrovers to
Bangladesh under the Australian Aid Programme, the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, Mr Whitlam, announced today.
" Bangladesh's transnort resources, damaged extensively
during the war, are still being rehabilitated and the Bangladesh
Government urgently needs vehicles for a wide variety of purposes,
" The Landrovers will be supplied during 1973 and 1974
and at least half of these are exnected to be available for
delivery by June this year.
" The total cost of the project will be $ 750,000."
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