IMPERIAL DEFENCE
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS’ GIFT.
[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]' RUGBY, February 27.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir P. Cunliffe Lister, referring in the Commons to the recent gift of half-a-million dollars by the Straits Settlements towards the cost of Imperial defence, reminded the House that this was the second full contribution made by the Colony recently, in addition to the annual payment of lour million dollars for this purpose.
The thanks of His Majesty’s Government had already been expressed by the Governor to the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements, and he added that this generous gift was warmly welcomed, not only for its own sake, but as a striking indication of goodwill and of the spirit of responsibility and co-operation in which the Colony approached a problem of common interest to the Empire as a whole.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 February 1935, Page 7
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