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COSTLY ITEM OF DEFENCE NEARLY THREE MILLIONS SPENT COMPLETION IN FOUR YEARS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 2.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON, March 3. In the House of Commons the 11" * Han A V. Alexander, First Lord of <a Admiralty, stated in a written answer to a question that the total expenditure on the Singapore Base including the floating' dock, was. to date, : iproximatelv £2,772,000. The date for completion of the main works under the contract was in 1935.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 March 1931, Page 9
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83BASE AT SINGAPORE Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 March 1931, Page 9
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