COST ESTIMATED BETWEEN'55 GO MILLIONS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12256, 2 July 1909, Page 5

COST ESTIMATED BETWEEN'SS GO MILLIONS.

NEED Fdll HASTE

Received July 1, 10.30 p.m

LONDON, July 1

Lord Charles lieresford, continuing, said his scheme proposed the following :— Ten Dreadnoughts: Eighteen second-class cruisers. . •■ ' Eighteen commerce protection crui.•ser.?. • " • • : Twenty-four new class vessels, known as anti-destroyers, being larger than •destroyers. •■■•:• Fifty-two destroyers. -.■■•■. Four floating decks. Depleted stores cf ccal and ammuni•tion should be completed, and repairing -stations abroad should be restored. Sixteen thousand extra men should be enrolled in the navy. The 'total cost of tJie ccham'e would Ijo o-> to CO millions. "This," ■■■said Lord Charles, "would Siive the new navy which Sir E. Grey jsays is necessary, Heretofore .our. .trade, routes have been left to Providence. Hence my demand for new fhijr;. The lloyal Marines ought never i > be reduced below 20,000, and the Cortttguards are xery necessary." An t-i how to get tho,money for this nsw ::;ci:t'^ ) the left it for the oi.^iitry tv r.ns'ver, adding •that mils a- nctad f n iir.inodiately it ■would be too -lnte.

A -resolution ■ declaring tha,t. the' present naval programme was inadequate, suid urging tlie. leaders o,f the Parliamentary parties to cO-perate in supplementing it, was unanimously adopted.