PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 281, 26 November 1919, Page 6

PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC.

NEED FOS? READY DEFENCE. - Mr. J. A. Young, M.P., said in Hamilton at his election meeting that the regeneration of Japan, her growth during the last century had been truly wonderful, so wonderful that the problems of the Pacific had become intensified. Japan had in a marvellous degree emerged from her Orientalism and Eastern traditions to the position of a Great Power, taking her place among the Western nations- of the earth. She had a powerful army and a heavily armed naw, and, of course, was ambitious to spread her dominion in Eastern Asia and the islands of the Pacific. If the South Pacific were to remain British, and the peoples established there were to preserve their nationality, then bo far as New Zealand was -concerned, the people must see to it that this Dominion was strong in the only way which made for national strength. (Applause.) A vigorous immigration policy would need to be put into operation at an early date, if we were to preserve our racial purity. And in connection with this problem the development of a Dominion naval policy was imperative. Admiral Jellicoe's report should be firstly submitted to a conference of those parts of the Empire concerned. r '. - "