VPRS 12105 Minutes of the Decentralisation of Industries Committee

The Decentralisation of Industries Committee was set up to make investigations into ways in which the State Government could encourage the decentralisation of Victorian industry. The Committee was under the sponsorship of the Central Planning Authority (VA 4151) being chaired, as it was itself, by the Minister for State Development. The membership of the Committee consisted of members of the Central Planning Authority, representatives of Trades Hall Councils and of large companies established in regional Victoria.With a change of Government in 1948, this Committee was superseded being replaced by the Decentralisation Committee attached to the Department of Labour and Decentralisation.