SINGAPORE BASE
MORE EXPENDITURE URGED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ' LONDON, August 10. Questioned here regarding reports that work on the Singapore naval base might be abandoned by the British Labour Government, Aljr Winston Churchill said: “Such a policy would undoubtedly he supported,by the Liberals,” Hut he added that it was a fact that Australia and New r Zealand had actually contributed more, towards the construction of the.base than did Britain. “It is unfair to take people’s money on the promise of doing something and then not to carry out the promise,” he said. 1 Mr Churchill stated that he regarded Singapore as a highway and an important link in the Empire, and he was thoroughly in accord with its continuance.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1929, Page 5
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121SINGAPORE BASE Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1929, Page 5
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