DESTROYERS FOR AUSTRALIA.
A PROTEST. MELBOURNE, February 13. A deputation representing the Boiltrmakers' and Shipbuilders' Unions waited on the Federal Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce), and urged that firms should have a chance of tendering for the construction of the destroyers it is intended to have built. Although the Minister upheld the p oposal ot the Government to have the initial vessels constructed in England, the deputation expressed tbemsehes satisfied with the interview.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3115, 15 February 1909, Page 5
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73DESTROYERS FOR AUSTRALIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3115, 15 February 1909, Page 5
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