“Australians generally are more alive to the necessity for defence than seems to be the case in New Zealand,” said Mr C. C. Davis, of Christchurch, who has returned after a business trip to Australia. “Australians are taking defence matters very seriously, and are making great efforts to bring their defences to a higher state of efficiency than ever before." Mr Davis said that the Cockatoo dockyards, of which he is a director, has begun a substantial programme of work on the present ships of the Australian Navy, sufficient to keep the yards working at capacity for the next two years. Thirteen hundred men were at work there, and a great many more would be employed as the programme gathered momentum.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1938, Page 6
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