OLE DEFENCES.
A return just published shows that the amount voted for defence purposes in New Zealand during the twenty years ending 1897 was over £3,000,000. What haye we to show for this huge expenditure ? Is there any one of onr large cities protected ? How long is the frittering away of revenue to continue? Three millions of money would provide the colony with a squadron capable of defending us against any power, whilst the hundred thousand or more which throwing away every year on tin soldiers would maintain a navy.
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Hastings Standard, Volume III, Issue 866, 9 March 1899, Page 2
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90OLE DEFENCES. Hastings Standard, Volume III, Issue 866, 9 March 1899, Page 2
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