DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA
ADDITIONAL FUNDS SPECIAL BILL IN PARLIAMENT I'U PA—B.v Electrio Telegraph— Copy ruth t’ I (Received 29th November, 10.50 a.m.) CANBERRA, This Day. The Prime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons | stated that a special bill will probably be introduced before Parliament adjourns to appropriate additional funds for defence purposes. A message from Sydney last week stated that the defence programme announced in April was estimated to cost £43,000.000. The programme that the Ministry now contemplates will cost £60,000,000 and possibly £70,000,000. Ministers are satisfied that the original programme must be greatly expanded, because they are convinced that the whole basis of Australia’s preparation for an emergency has changed. I
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 29 November 1938, Page 5
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