DEFENCE OFTHE EMPIRE.
Saxaa AsaociAHON.— Copxiuoht.) SYDNEY DREADNOUGHT FUND. ".' PROPOSED NAVAL' COLLEGE. SYDNEY, Thursday. - At a meeting of the Dreadnought fund subscribers, th. Lord Mayor sub* -milted a scheme for the disposal of the monies subscribed by. the public, £85,000, towards a Dreadnought, but hot now required for that purpose, the Commonwealth Government having -made other arrangements for naval defence. - • ' His proposal was that in order to commemoratac the -wave of patriotic 'feeling which England's" need, drew ''forth, ; and symbolic of the State's "at'ta.hment to the Mother , Country, the fundrand accrued interest be devoted, to the 'building and equipment of a King Edward Naval College near Sydney, for the training of Australian cadets for the Empire Navy, as 'officers, engineers, - and naval architects, and equipping and maintaining one or more farms for training British lads in Australian farming. He estimated that the College and faiim -would : each cost £50,000. '.Thefeeling of f the meeting, was fa- . vourable to . the 'Lord Mayor 's proposals, and : it was deeided.-to. further consider them at an .early; date. Meanwhile tho subscribers,, to . the Dreadnought fund will; be- gene-"^ not-flecl.-. ' ' * : ''-'_; vKis
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 10 September 1909, Page 3
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