CONTINGENT "DREADNOUGHTS."

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 174, 21 July 1909, Page 5

CONTINGENT "DREADNOUGHTS."

2KE AUCKLAND DRY iDQCK

[press association.] v(R«eeived July 21,-11.30 .a,mi) LOJSDON, July 20L JThe .Times states .that the .Govern- - iwent are determined .to jpTOcee'd immediately with the t construction -of tcontiijgent 'fDreadaoughts." •Mr McKenna, replying an .the House of Commotes to Mr (Craig,-said •thai; £150,000 wouldrb«paid .in ..thirty .yeaxs, at ■ the rate erf ; annually, as a subsidy to tlie Auoklaand dry -dock. This, subsidy would.be granted with a view to getting the 'dock properly equipped: The only other >adbsidised dock' is at (Colombo.