AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.
NEEDED POPULATION. {By TelejrapU -Press Association-CeDjMelsl I Melbourne, September 14. Speaking on the subject of ■'defonco-tho Federal Ministor for Defence, Mr. J. Cook, said tho first answer to tho question in Australia must bo sought in tho cradles, and tho next in a constant stream of oversea immigration.
Mr. Cook hopes that tho financial arrangement with the States will furnish enough to meet the expenses of defence without further taxation. ' NEW Sollrfl^L^'bll'EArJ'NOUbHT 1 FUND.
;:'.-■ K:='';?. *>i: : M>, ■-'; ; Sydney,'■ September.l4.j '■': ~'.'' Replying - to 'critics [-''■■ of .his '; Dreadnought fund ; proposals, : the 'Lord',Mayor. (Alderman'. Allen Taylor) 6tated -that "all subscribers .jof over.'£looo..approve,his scheme^ ; ,V.. 7; ' i'.' '/;. (On'.the invitation of thoXord'.Mayorof .Sydney, about-. .'wae raised by .publid.subsoription for , presenting a Dreadnought to the .Imperial■• Goverijment if the J .Federal Government'failed W 'take action.••! As the v :Figher Ministry',was,defeated, .and the'action' of jhis •successor :(Mr. Deakin)' has satisfied.the 'pat riotio' party,- the ; Lord; Mayor now to divert theJund-to establishing a Naval Training; Collegejand: to equipping one , or more farms for-training:British : lads in; the work of '. Australian' farming.: He estimated that «ach .of these.scliemes;would.cost about Xso,OOpi]V',
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 612, 15 September 1909, Page 7
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181AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 612, 15 September 1909, Page 7
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