BRITISH NAVY.
BUILDING PROGRAMME. EIGHT NEW LIGHT CRUISERS. WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, January 22. In the House of Commons, Mr L. C. M. S. Amery, First Lord of the Admiralty, dealt with the Government’s special programme of naval construction, with a view to relieving unemployment in shipbuilding centres: He proposed to lay down immediately eight light cruisers of 10,000 lons, armed with 8-inch guns, throe of which would be built at the Royal dockyards, and the remainder to be submitted to tender. In addition to this special unemployment programme, this year’s programme would include three submarines, one submarine depot ship, two destroyers, one destroyer depot ship, two gunboats for special service in the Persian Gulf, one aircraft carrier, and one minelayer, all urgently needed.
The whole programme would employ 32,000 men, and involve a special addition of £5,000,000 to the Navy Estimates. He was confident the present Opposition was not indifferent to the needs of naval security and the urgent situation in shipbuilding yards, but would give the proposals their prompt and sympathetic consideration when Parliament reassembled.
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15898, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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