NAVAL ESTIMATES
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyriyht.
OVER 44 MILLIONS.
CONSIDERABLE INCREASE
Received This Morning, 12.45 o'clock
LONDON, March. 10
The Naval Estimates are .£'44,392,500. The personnel is increased by 3000 men, ship building and naval armament are increased by £3,250,000. Of the £15,063,877 devoted to new construction, £13,325,000 will be spent in the continuation. of works under construction, and £1,738,645 to new ships. The inew programme includes five battleships, three protected' cruisers, one unprotected, twenty desti'oyers, six submarines, two river gunboats, the destroyer depot .ship, hospital ship. Two battleships!; will- rbe 1 built at Porfomouth ancl Devonport.will have ■three contract®;-... v ■ .. . Tli© records the Australian decision not to ask for an imperial contribution' to the Australian navy. He state;:the Admiralty has conveyed an expression of cordial thanks to the Common wealth for the additional relief this has given to the naval votes.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19110311.2.13.22
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10186, 11 March 1911, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
146NAVAL ESTIMATES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10186, 11 March 1911, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in