Total £2,410,500
London, June 2,.—A sum of £1,773,500 on account of the new construction programme included in the supplementary naval. estimates totalling" £2,410,500 issued today.
The Estimates also provide -for £264,200 for marriage allowance to naval and marine officers; £730,800" for increased marriage allowance to, naval ratings and increased pay for special service ratings; and £92,009 as the first instalment of the purchase price of à seaplane carrier to be acquired from the Government Australia. 1 New ships to be ordered in the 1938 new building programme include two battleships, seven cruisers, two submarines one to be built at Chathas a submarine? depot, ship, an aircraft carrier, a seaplane carrier to, be purchased from the Government of Australia, a destroyer depot ship, Fleet Air Arm supply and repair ship, three mine layers, two gunboats, seven motor torpedo ships, and a number of smaller vessels,
the first instalment of £450,000 of the The Estimates include the zecoipt price of the cruiser which is to be transferred to the Australian Government.
In_a statement, Mr, A, Duff-Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty, recalls that he originally explained that tiè Navy Estimates for 1938 contained nothing on account of new construction this year, which would be the subject of supplementary estimate Reuter.
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