AUSTRALIA’S MILITARY.
ANNUAL REPORT. MELBOURNE, March 8. The annual repeat of the Military Board states that the present scheme of reorganisation provides for a peace establishment of 25,500 in all rants. The Bear'd proposes to try at an early date a scheme for interchanging officers between Australia, Canada, and India. Eight thousand of the latest pattern of magazine rifle have been ordered. Eighteen out of the thirty-six automatic machine guns ordered have been delivered.
It is stated in the report that the colonial ammunition factory is capable of producing eighteen million rounds for small arms annually.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5843, 9 March 1906, Page 5
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96AUSTRALIA’S MILITARY. New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5843, 9 March 1906, Page 5
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