BUILDING OF A DREADNOUGHT.
DAILY WORK FOR FIFTEEN HUNDRED MEN. Received May 16, 4.30 p.m. LONDON, May 15. The Hon. R. McKenna (First Lord of the Admiralty) replying to a question in the House of Commons, that the building of a Dreadnought gives daily work to 1,500 skilledmen. Seventy per cent, of the cost goes in wages.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3191, 17 May 1909, Page 5
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57BUILDING OF A DREADNOUGHT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3191, 17 May 1909, Page 5
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