UNITED STATES NAVY
CONSTRUCTION POLICY APPROPRIATIONS PASSED (Australian and N.Z. Press Association. WASHINGTON, December 13. Admiral Hughes, chief of navy operations, in his annual report, stated that Congress will act to provide an enlisted naval personnel of 88,500 for the fiscal year 1930, not including allowance for nucleus crews or for the number required for the commission of vessels now in course of construction. The report complained that insufficient funds were provided in the past year to adequately man the vessels in commission. Appropriations of £760,000 for naval construction were passed by the House of Representatives to-day, despite protests by the critics, chief of whom was Representative Laguardia, that such legislation was inappropriate when the Government was making a gesture for universal peace. The sum of £540,000 was appropriated to complete two submarines, and the remainder to complete the modernisation of the battleships California, Oklahoma and Nevada.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16827, 14 December 1928, Page 7
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