COST OF SINGAPORE
BASE TO DATE ABSORBS NEARLY £9,000,000 DOMINIONS GIVE £1,672,000 British Official Wireless Reed. 12.5 p.m. RUGBY, Wed. Tlie First Lord oil the Admiralty, Mr. A. V. Alexander, in the House of Commons today said the total expenditure to date upon the Singapore Naval Base, including the floating dock, was £2,527,000. He estimated the total expenditure was £5,721,000. Contributions received from tlie Dominions and colonies were' £1,672,000, the whole of which had been applied to expenditure to date. The date of the completion of the main contract would be toward the end of 1935, but two years further would he required for the completion of, various works, making the final date of completion the end of 1937.
Those date's were subject to the effect of any decision which might be given following a review of the policy to be undertaken in consultation with the overseas Governments concerned. Nothing was being done at present except to proceed with the main contract. All other work, such as armament, etc.Y had been suspended.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1020, 10 July 1930, Page 9
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