AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8965, 3 August 1905, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON.-

o DISSATISFACTION EXPRESSED.

[PP.ESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 3, noon.)

MELBOURNE, August 3.

Sen?.: or Smith, in the Senate, referring to the Australian squadron, said the whole quc-stkn of the naval agreement was most unsatisfactory. The ships which had been agr£r<l upon, and for which the Commonwealth had stipulated to pay £200,000 a yeai, l:yl not been placed on the station. When the Bill was introduced Mr Barton stated there would be 1600 Australians and ftew Zalanders employed on the. vessels, instead of which up to the present there were aily 628.