CANADA'S NAVAL POLICY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 288, 5 December 1910, Page 5

CANADA'S NAVAL POLICY.

HASTENING CONTRACTS. GOVERNMENT MAT RESIGN. (By Cable.—Press Association.—eopyrtgnt) OTTAWA, December 3. The "Montreal Gazette" states that Sir Wilfrid Laurier will probably resign in the autumn, and make a subsequent educational tour on the navy question through Quebec, Ontario, and other provinces. As a result of the navy debate, contracts have been hastened for four cruisers of the Bristol class, and six torpedoboat destroyers of the river class. Oil fuel is to be used for both. The completion of the programme will cost £2,000,000. FARMERS AND THE NAVY. HARVEST OF THE SEA. (Received 8.5 a.m.) OTTAWA, December 4. Five hundred prairie farmers, representing West Canada, are coming to Ottawa on the 16th inst to urge the lowering of the tariff on agricultural imported necessities. The "Blue Book" of the North-west Mounted Police alludes to the recent establishment of the Canadian Whaling Company, and hopes that Canada will undersell the United States, which hitherto has been monopolising the Arctic, HUDSON'S BAY. OTTAWA, December 3. Mr. A. B. Aylesworth (Canadian Minister of Justice), explaining The Hague fisheries award, indicated that the result aided Canada to maintain the sovereignty of Hudson's Bay, which he hoped would never be questioned.