VPRS 5696 Minutes of Meetings

The Victorian Industries Location Committee arose from the need to consider evacuating essential industry from the capital cities and dispersing it throughout regional areas. The initial proposal to constitute a Committee named the Evacuation of Industries Committee to investigate these matters was made in February 1942. Under the chairmanship of Hon J H Lienhop, M.L.C. and with representatives from both Commonwealth and State departments and instrumentalities, its function was to give effect to resolutions of the Premiers Conference regarding the Evacuation of Industry. It would seem that this Committee became the precursor of later Committees concerned with investigating and encouraging decentralisation of industry.The records in this series consist of the Minutes of the Committee considering the parameters they should adopt in dealing with their task, their powers and proposals for the re-location of specific industries.