Canberra To Be Defence Headquarters
(Receivedd 2.30 p.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. Mr H. V. Thorby, Minister of Defence, in Parliament, detailing the defence preparations that were made in Australia during the recent crisis, revealed that the Commonwealth had made extensive plans to face war. Armed forces had been prepared for mobilisation. Defence preparations showed that it was a serious weakness to have the headquarters of the Defence Department in Melbourne, land these would be transferred to Canberra. • Five hundred cottages would have to be constructed in Canberra to house the members of the staff and their families.
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Northern Advocate, 21 October 1938, Page 7
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