DEFENCE OF EMPIRE
GIFT BY THE STRAITS SETTLEMENT SINGAPORE, February 7. The Government ot the Straits Settlement is making a gift of 500,000 dollars (£58,000) to the Home Government lor the purpose of Imperial defence. It will be rcI called t'fit the colony gave the site for the naval base, toward the cost of which the Federated Malay States contributed £2,000,000.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21085, 9 February 1934, Page 9
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