FEDERAL POLITICS.
Received October 3, 1.7 a.m
MELBOURNE, Ocotber 2,
Sir William Lyne stated" that the plan adopted had been to get back to the expenditure before the war, during which it had been largely increased. They must not aJlow things to drift till the tinre of trouble came. He would have no objection to the establishment of a Navy when the pro-pca1 time came. At present the Naval force was a toy force, but it was premature altogether to talk of an Australian Navy." He gave an assuiance that he had taken .precaution, against the raising of any semblance of authority for sending men outside the Commonwealth.
Received October 3, 0.30 a.m
MELBOURNE, October 2,
Sir W. Lyne, in submititing the Federal Defence Estimates, totalling £672.000, less £106,000 for the auxiliary squadron, stated that the reduced naval vote was £26,000 and the military vote £147,000.
The votes for -small arms ammunition were reduced by £53,000, and for new rifles by £15,000.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11754, 3 October 1902, Page 5
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162FEDERAL POLITICS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11754, 3 October 1902, Page 5
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