Not Pulling Our Weight
Expenditure On Naval
Defence
Comparison With People
Of Britain
(P.A.) Wellington, March 17. Although New Zealand’s *,aval vote of last year at £2,500,000 was 50 per cent higher than the year before, it was still too low in comparison with the British naval vote of £190,000,000 for 1949, said the president of the Navy League of New Zealand, Commander C. H. T. Palmer, at a meeting of the council of the league. “On a per capita basis the British taxpayer, under austerity conditions, is paying £4 for naval defence, compared with the New Zealand, under prosperity conditions, paying £1 10s,” said the president. “This does not support the aid for Britain policy. Should we not also pay a subsidy toward the cost of the Royal Navy for its protection of the mercantile marine, without which the Dominion could not exist?”
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14930, 18 March 1949, Page 3
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