SINGAPORE BASE
EXPENDITURE TO DATE (Rec. March 23, 8.5 p.m.) London, March 22. In the House of Commons Colonel Headlam (Under-Secretary of the Admiralty), speaking in the Navy Estimates debate, stated that the Admiralty’s total expenditure to date on the Singapore Base amounted to £508,500. This year they would spend £228,000, plus £300,000 for a floating dock. Towards this expenditure, £378,000 had been received from New Zealand, HongKong and the Federated Malay States. A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 150, 24 March 1928, Page 10
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76SINGAPORE BASE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 150, 24 March 1928, Page 10
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