DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.
Mr G. Witty, M.P., urged oil Tuesday afternoon, on the second reading of the Imprest Supply Bill, that if the Government desired to save money it should cut out tho expenditure on the defence forces, tho land forces altogether, and train the cadets at school instead. That was all that was necessary. Tho Government, he contended, could save some £300,000 a year by cutting out the whole of the defence expenditure except that on the drilling of the boys! at school, which could be done by the teachers themselves,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 490, 31 August 1922, Page 5
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