NEW ZEALAND NAVY
—. «. QUESTION IN THE'COMMONS NEW CRUISERS (From "The Post's" Representative.) ■ ' . LONDON, sth April. , In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. A. Williams," Conservative M.P. for Cornwall North, asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether the New Zealand Government had offered any addittional contribution to Imperial Defence. Mr. Bridgeman, replying, said: In 1924 the New Zealand Government undertook the entire maintenance of the oil burning cruiser Dunedin in place of the coal burning cruiser Chatham, which they had been maintaining since 1920. r . In 1925 tho New Zealand Government further undertook tho entire maintenance of a second oil-burning cruiser, tho Diomede. Eecently, New Zealand has mado the geneWms contribution of £1,000,000; to bo paid in eight instalments, towards the construction of the Dock at .Singapore. I was wrong in saying that New Zealand was to maintain an additional cruiser. It is anticipated that when the existing cruisers aro eventually withdrawn they will be ■replaced by two B Class cruisers to be wholly maintained by; Now Zealand.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 9
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168NEW ZEALAND NAVY Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 9
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