DARWIN DEVELOPMENT
LONG-RANGE RADIO STATIONS FOR ROYAL NAVY’S USE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) DARWIN, Jan. 25. Two long-range radio stations, which will cost about £40,000, will be erected near Darwin this year by the Commonwealth Government for use by the Royal Australian Navy. These stations, which will be among the most powerful in the world, will be erected as one of the principal links in the chain of defence of British waters south of the Tropic of Cancer, and are intended to form part of Australia’s development of Darwin as a southern adjunct of Singapore. V THE DEFENCE PROGRAMME RAPID PROGRESS MADE MELBOURNE, Jan. 25, The Prime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons, stated that the success of the drive to increase the militia strength to 70,000 and of the £63,000,000 defence programme generally was in sight. Mr Lyons, who will preside over a meeting of the Australian De r fence Council to-day, added that Australians should know that the defence programme was being carried out with the greatest expedition and that when completed it would assure them of reasonable security against aggression.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23717, 26 January 1939, Page 12
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