IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
THE CONTINGENT DREAD-
NOUGHTS
REPORTED IMMEDIATE COMMENCEMENT. TJNETKn Press Association —Copyright (Received July 20, 10 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. The “Times” states that the Government has determined to proceed immediately, with the four contingent Dreadnoughts. A SUBSIDY TO BE PAID . Mr. R. McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, in reply to Air. Craig, said that £150,000 W'ould be paid thirty years, at the rate of £SOOO annually, to the Auckland diy dock. The subsidy -was granted with the view of getting the dock properly- equipped. The only other subsidised dock is that at Colombo.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2559, 21 July 1909, Page 5
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96IMPERIAL DEFENCE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2559, 21 July 1909, Page 5
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