"AWFUL EXPENDUTURE."

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12282, 15 June 1903, Page 2

"AWFUL EXPENDUTURE. "

HUNT TO THPE GOLOBfEESs 1 ;'! . \ ' , *, „_ .< of ■ ftiir • United Press Assoclatlon.—By Xjieo* ' " • • trie ! Telegraph. — Copyright. London, June 13. •In the House of Gompxmsj'After 1 ' a discursive debate, the Mraatfce / .©fll>''W»s. read a second time Wdiiboait^kf division}.. Mr Ritchie, OhahcelKJr of the Ek-} fcjioqyuer, said it wa^ : iiftpoissible for the Government to f 'ignore the augmentation of the G-ertnan anfl A,mericati fleets. The British Government would rejoice iE atf* international league could keep ddton this awful elxlpenditure aver thd 1 "navies^ but withput that, no decrease of expenditure was possible. "'" The colonies • 6ught; 6,dded ,Mr > Ritchie, to coQT&rlbfute more largely to the nary, as^ very considerafole pro- i portion of tihe eixpendii^re was in- ! ■cujrred in their protection. llhe Chancellor's astimale for "the expenclitluro on "Gie navy for 1902-3 was £31,255,000. „ . . . I , Mx Chamfcerlain, at the Conference of Prcmiiers. said naval an,d | military expenditure cost 29/3 per head of the pfopulation of the TMtod J Kingdom as against 2/ in Canada, 3/4 itx New Zoalatad, 3/5 in, New South \Malos, "3/3 in Victoria, and between 2/ and %J% J va Cape Colony and Natal. "No one would pretend that this was a fair distribution of -the burdens of j the Etoipire."