NAVAL DEFENCE BILL.
(Special to Times.)
WELLINGTON, last night
I forward, for public information the main clauses of the Australian and New Zealand Naval Defence Bill, dealing with tiie agreement under which the subsidy is to he paid : 2. Tlie said agreement is hereby, ratified and approved. 3. In each year during which the said agreement is in force, and the service therein mentioned is rendered, there shall be issued and paid to His Majesty out of the Consolidated Bund, for the purposes of the said agreement, a sum equal to onctwelfbh part of the annual cost referred to in article 8 of the said agreement, provided that the sum payable under this Act shall not in any one year exceed the sum of forty thousand pounds, and the Consolidated Fund is hereby appropriated to that extent accordingly. 4. On the expiration of six months from the passing of this Act, the Australasian Naval Defence Act, 1887, and the Australasian Naval Defence Act, 1902, shall be deemed to be repealed.- " R. J. SEDDON.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1024, 17 October 1903, Page 2
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