DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA
INCREASE IN EXPENDITURE ACCELERATION OF PROGRAMME £70,000,000 IN THREE YEARS (United Press Assn.— Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Rec. Feb. 18, 1i.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Feh. 18. The accelerated and expanded defence programme of the Federal Government. which it was estimated would originally cost £63,000,000 over a period of three years, will probably cost not less than £70,000,000. The additional expenditure results from the recommendations of the In-spector-General of Military Forces, Lieutenant-General Squires.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19390218.2.58
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
73DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. 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