DOMINIONS AND NAVAL DEFENCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 2

DOMINIONS AND NAVAL DEFENCE.

EXPENDITURE PER HEAD OF POPULATION. (From Otj.r Own Correspondent.) LONDON, May 8. Mr Ormsby-Goro hits given a written reply to a question by Major Hore-Bolisha, who asked how much money has been contributed in respect of the current year by each of the dominions and Crown colonies towards naval defence; what proportion this sum bears in each case to their total import and export trade and per capita of their population, respectively; and how these figures compare with Great Britain’s contributions under those heads. Mr Ormsby-Gore states that the contribution of tho dominions to naval defence takes the form of maintenance of their own naval forces and establishments by the Governments of Canada, tho commonwealth of Australia, Now Zealand, and the Union of death Africa. The amounts provided in tho Estimates of the following parts of the Empire for the year 1924-25 are: United Kingdom.—£ss,Boo,ooo. Expenditure per head, £1 4s lOd. Amount spent on naval doionce for every £IOOO of total import and export trade, £25 3s 9d. Canada.—l,4oo,ooo dollars. Expenditure per head, 0.13 dollars. Amount spent for every 1000 dollars of total import and export trade, 0.74 dollars. Commonwealth of Australia. —£2,318,164. Expenditure per head, Bs. Amount spent for every £IOOO of total import and export trade, £8 14s. There are, in addition, special appropriations of £3,000,000 for naval construction and £1,500,000 for defence purposes generally, which are proposed to be expended over a number of years. Now Zealand.—£s23,o79. Expenditure, per head, Bs. Amount spent for every £IOOO of total import ;iud export trade, £5 5 S Bd. Union of South Africa.—£l42,o3s. Expenditure per head, Is 9d. Amount spent for every £IOOO of total imports and export trade, £1 Os Id. With regard to the colonies and protectorates, the contributions to Imperial defence made by the Governments of HongKong, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, and Mauritius are paid, not to the Admiralty but to the War Office