A GREAT SURPRISE.
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ANOTHER DREADNOUGHT. TO BE BUILT BY AUSTRALIA. (Received This Morning, 12.55 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, March 31. The Hon A. .Fisher's policy speech, sprang a great surprise by announcing that the Government, having carefully considered the naval strengths of the Pacific, decided to lay down immediately another Dreadnought, three destroyers, and three or four submarines, all to .be of greatly improved types. The designs have already prepared by the Navy Office. Mr Fisher strongly defended Australia's naval policy, and quoted the following to prove that Australia alone among the 'Dominions was taking the question of defence seriously: Annual expenditure per head, for deference^ —Britain £1 lis 7d; Australia, £1 Is 2d; New Zealand lis 2d; South Africa, 6s 2d; Canada 6s 2d; New Foundland, 3d. The new programme will be spread over three years. /These vessels- are distinct from those now under construction.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 April 1913, Page 5
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152A GREAT SURPRISE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 1 April 1913, Page 5
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