AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE
NATIONAL REGISTER PROPOSAL [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
(Recd. February .6, 11.30 a.m.)
SYDNEY, February 6.
The “Herald’s” Hobart correspondent says that the Federal Cabinet, at a series of meetings, beginning at Hobart to-day, will probably approve the proposal to establish a national defence register, either on a voluntary or compulsory basis.
MOTOR TORPEDO BOATS.
HOBART, February 6.
The Minister’ of Defence (Mr. Street) announced that the Federal Government has ordered six motor torpedoboats, and will order six more as soon as tests of a new type have been carried out in Britain. The hulls will be built at Cockatoo Dockyard, and the engines imported from Britain. The first will be launched before the end of the year.
DARWIN INFANTRY. DARWIN, February G, A militia unit, probably consisting of 200 infantry, is to be raised in Darwin, to co-operate with the permanent mechanised force which will be stationed here shortly.
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