THE BRITISH NAVY.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 934, 6 July 1903, Page 2

THE BRITISH NAVY.

THE NAVAL WORKS BILL.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Received 4.56 p.m., July 4. London, July 4. . The resolution forming the basis of the Naval Works Bill, for two years providing 6} millions expenditure on old items and 1 \ millions now agreedto, Mr Prettyman, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, stated that the Admiralty had decided the items now included in this serios of bills as hnal, although the estimates, which altogether amounted to 31$ millions, were not final, 13$ millions had already been voted, making with the present bill 21 millions.; -ino new items, he added, include electric fight for all naval establishments in the mpire, a new gunnery school at Devonport, and transformation of Sheerness aookyara into a depot for large repairs of all torpedo boat destroyers, increased dock accommodation at Chatham, and initial expenditure on the naval station at St. Margaret s Hope. This base would be called Rossyth. He also said that supposing the total expenditure under the series of bills to be 40 millions, that sum would be spread over 20 years, and would not exceed two millions annually, or adding maintenance generally, three millions. The statement was well received.