DEFENCE EXPANSION
THE NAVAL SECTION
Aft IMMEDIATE START
(Received December 9, 12.30 p.p.) CANBERRA, This Day*.*.,.. Instructions for an immediate star£ * to be made with the naval building sec- *
tion of the defence expansion programme have been given by the Minister of Defence (Mr. G. A. Street), who announced that £51,660,000 of the £63,000,000 would be spent in Australia.
The Federal taxes for this year, which were increased substantially when the Budget was introduced in September, may be increased again before the year closes. This prospect was mentioned by the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) when he was discussing problems associated with the financing of the defence programme.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19381208.2.76.2
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 9
Word Count
107DEFENCE EXPANSION Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in