NAVAL DEFENCE
v)> • . - LONDON, July 4. In Committee of Supply in. the House of Commons on th©; naval estimate, a resolution forming tfie basisi of ' the • /Naval. Works Bill for two'- yeafs, and providing for an expenditure of millions on old items hud millions on: new, waangreed to. v ’ /•!’ /,;///m Captain E. G. Pretyman, Civd Lord; of the Admiralty, stated that ;the Ad*. mii-altfy had decided that the items now included in this series of Bills shomUL be final, ,i although the estimates/ wbijpb altogether amounted to 31f millions, were hot , final. He said that 13$ mil- 1 lions had been already voted, making with the present Bill 21 millions for new works. * Captain Pretyihaai added that these works would include the installation of electric light in all the naval establishments in the Empire, a new gunnery school at Devonport and the transformation of th© dockyard at Sheerness
into a depot for large repairs of all torpedo-boat destroyers. The amount, he said, aliso provided for increased dock accommodation at Chatham and for the initial (©xpendi-. ture on the new ndval station at St. Margaret’s Hope, Scotland. This base, ho stated, will be called Rosyth. Captain Pretyman said that,, supposing thevbotal expenditure under a series of Bills tp be 40 millions, that sum would be spread over twenty years, and would not exceed two millions annually, or, addings the cost of maintenance generally, three millions. The statement Was well received.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1636, 8 July 1903, Page 2
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