Defence Program for Cape Town
CAI'E TOWN.— The L’niun Govern mini Ims approved the detente ami civil aviation scheme put forward |»y the Minister of Defence, Oswald Pitow, as a result of his recent conv vrsat ion-I with the British authorities. Extensions to Cape Town harbour i an . important part of the Minister’s pm-I posuls) are lo begin shortly and will be 1 pushed ahead as rapidly as possible. The to be about £IO,<JOO,‘JUU. The British Government has agree., to supply the Union with a number ol up-to-date aircraft for 1 raining purposes at special prices and to reserve other machines which the Union could take when required at standard prices. Machines easily convertible to defence pm poses will be used i'oc the civil aviation projects. The huge expenditure on Cape I'own harbour is, it is considered, likely to be i offset, to a great extent by the in creased 1 use of the west coast route as a result of the changed conditions in the Mediteranean. The harbour is to be protected from attack by battleships or
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 24 November 1936, Page 10
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178Defence Program for Cape Town Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 278, 24 November 1936, Page 10
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