AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE.
Af_.L-00-.N-_, Jan. 18.
The Defence Commission recommend the erection of a lighthouse at Cape Leuwin, and its connection by telegraph with Albany; also to locate a battery of artillery there; that until tho arrangements for a federal regiment are -completed the permanent garrison at Iting George's Sound be furnished by Adelaide. The Commission further recommend that a local artillery force be raised at Albany, where an infantry force is necessary, which in time of war should number not leas than three hundred men. The cost of the armament offered by the Imperial Government is .£15,276; thnt recommended by the Commission will cost ,£285 more.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7066, 19 January 1891, Page 4
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