IMPERIAL DEFENCE
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS GIFT (British' Official Wireless.; (United Press Association.) - (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 21. The Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements voted unanimously a gift of £500,000 to the British Government towards the cost of Imperial defence. This follows the gift of a similar sum a year ago. Both gifts are voluntary contributions towards the general cost of defence of the Empire, and are over and above the compulsory-contribution of £400,000 a year for which the colony is liable in respect of the cost of the \ regular army garrison at Singapore and the cost of upkeep of local volunteer forces in the colony. , rl : / y. •
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22504, 23 February 1935, Page 14
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108IMPERIAL DEFENCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22504, 23 February 1935, Page 14
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