AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE
COST OF £179.000,000 THIS YEAR
Defence expenditure by Australia in the present financial year is estimated at £179.402,658, which is equivalent to over £25 per head of population. Last year’s expenditure was £54,327,387. The sum of £33,924,759 will be spent abroad, compared with £12.004,142 last year, according to a statement issued by the Australian Trade Commissioner in New Zealand. Mr C. E, Critchley.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24415, 28 September 1940, Page 5
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65AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24415, 28 September 1940, Page 5
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