£7,000,000 BATTLESHIP.
TREMEiNDOUiS COST. LONDON, December 20. "When I saw H.M.S. Bodney launched at Birkenhead on. Thursday," said the Queensland Agent-Gen-eral (Mr J. Huxbain) to-day, ' I thought that monster craft the embodimemt of immense power. "But I could not help thinking also of its tremendous cost. What a pity it is that in the present stage of the world's evolution it is necessary to spend £7,000,000 on one vessel, and how much more nsefully that sum could be spent in development m Australia and other Domianons?
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Shannon News, 15 January 1926, Page 3
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86£7,000,000 BATTLESHIP. Shannon News, 15 January 1926, Page 3
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