AUSTRALIA’S DEFENCE.
ACCELERATING PROGRAMME. * (By Telegraph-Press Assn. -Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, March 18. An announcement that the Federal Government intended to increase its defence expenditure during the present financial year to enable it to accelerate the defence programme was made by Mr. Thorby (Minister of Defence). Mr. Thorby said the Government had decided to spent £35,000,000 on defence in the next quinquennium, of which the sum of £11,500,000 had been voted for expenditure this year. It was intended to ask Parliament to increase that vote. Parliament would also in the near future discuss the introduction of compulsory military training, but he could not say what action would be taken.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 March 1938, Page 8
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