U.S.A. BUDGET

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 August 1925, Page 5

U.S.A. BUDGET

DEFENCE VOTE. ARMY APPROPRIATIONS CUT. MORE MONEY FOR AVIATION. BY CABLE— PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYIUGHT NEW YORK, Aug. 11. A message from. Swampscott states that the big guns of the army and navy are trained on the part of Air. Coolidge’s economy programme. The budget director, Air. Lord, favours cutting for 1926, approximately flitv million dollars from* the 1925 military appiopriations, totalling 3/4 million doiiais. This is agreeable to Air. .Coolidge, though General Pershing and other high officers ar© opposed to it on the grounds oi jUcitioiial isa-fcty. ;In th<? winter of 1924 congress overuled Air. Lord and appropriated twenty-nine million dollars" more than was recommended for national defence. The proposed budget totals 3088 million doll ai s, only 21X1,008,000 less than the present year’s budget. Ihe reduc_ tion in the * military appropriation is countered by an increase in other departments and a 25 million dollars public building programme. Air. Coolidge favours an unstinted appropriation for aviation services in the army and navy. He believes jn the development of air forces. Aviation expenditure, which in 1925 was nintecn million dollars, will orobably reach 25 million dollars in 19*26. —Axis.-N.Z. Cable Assn.