"OUR DEFENCES."

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18074, 16 May 1924, Page 10

"OUR DEFENCES."

' NAVY LEAGUE ROUSE^;^' ! : The Canterbury Branch League took strong ' meeting last night to. the opmSp^'^ L , oently published in "The loqal experts 011 naval ai(l' " schemes of defence. . , ;s-vji^" Mr C. J. Trelr&\en, matter up by stating that An article on "Our tvo^Q, 1 porta had been discovered.-)-; man had "stated emphatically. thst'thv value of the Navy over-estimsited," and that up-to-date flying machines? landed in New Zealand 1 was only a fraction of modern curiser." "I don't itiJihfcsEflg opinions' should go Mr Treleuven," the are just on a par with the <B&ntiffiSipH of the Little Knglandera; off: 1 Britain, who think country, and not of the asked how .petrol woittfi be .the Dominion if there was;rio'nasHjj|£ fence, and how the landed here ( if enemies hod the sea. The experts had alaffinMßfe ten that New Zealand; was:;in''<tfjjg|s3 different jwsition from EnqlkiirffiMSß land was m striking - distance jmSHB plane from tho Continent., the present date.no onetnaa f !W>p the Domimoh from Aus'trulia, the nearest, country,. lop-sided, and they should be Tlie chairman, Mr W,, any, suggestion • .thai:' the • could do withoiit the' nonsense. There were ands of miles of trade the different parts ,of the aeroplaneMxraid not at for convoys, and w-ore available as such so the cost be majjj? ipoes fen# er than if cruisers meantime the)trtide roiitea'ffiusi'feeKctef fended, and that -was why v thMi£ptt||s i ment || ■nndy fused the of New Zfealniifisl nj with the- duty the Dominion iairaj sj| pari; and parcel of knaguM had appeared to 'tiiaHm yrup > ' no use whateVMßSj protecting, trade. Tha fetnden, which' did;' damage; sHowedlwhat one: do; 1 eveii' witk; ; Her.''' "Sdch he concluded.' " '''