A first-class battleship costs £317,000 a year to run, including pay, clothing. repairs, and victualling. Even the smaller submarines cost us £27,000 a year each. Germany has placed orders in Great Britain for 380.000 barrclls of herrings in the season now beginning, an increase of 20,000 barrels on last year.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20905, 9 September 1939, Page 11
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50Untitled Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20905, 9 September 1939, Page 11
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