AERIAL FLEET FOR AUSTRALIA
DEMANDS BY LABOUR PARTY ELECTION PROGRAMME OUTLINED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright FREMANTLE, September 21. In the course of his opening address in the Federal Labour campaign, the Leader of the Party (Mr J. Curtin) said that the Labour Party would maintain the Australian Navy, but it would be foolish to say that Australia could sustain a seagoing navy adequate for Australia’s needs. Australia’s expenditure on defences, which were within Australia’s ability to sustain, should be on those forms of defence which were increasingly important. The strength of the Australian defence must lie in aviation. A member of the present Government, the Rt. Hon. W. M. Hughes, had declared that aerial defence was the only defence within our capabilities, yet the Lyons Government thus far had provided only 96 planes, while there was, not far away, a Power equipped with a seaborne plane strength of not less than 300 planes. For a capital outlay of £7,500,000, Australia could have an aerial fleet of 300 planes.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20839, 22 September 1937, Page 7
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170AERIAL FLEET FOR AUSTRALIA Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20839, 22 September 1937, Page 7
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