THE GIFT DREADNOUGHT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 492, 27 April 1909, Page 5

THE GIFT DREADNOUGHT.

', EXPRESSION OF APPROVAL. ' : • (nr TELEGRAPH—I'RESS ASSOCIATION.)' -. -Christohurch, April 26. . ,At a meeting of tho Canterbury. -.College Board of Governors -this aif tefnoon.the. chairman (Mr. G. W. Ilussell, M.i\), moved tho following motion!':—' . \ . . . "That .the Board of 'Governors of: Can-; . torbury College,' realising- the paramount import.wco or the; maintenance ; of the supremacy of the British . -" Navy, most ;: hrartily: supports thopatriotic action of ': '; ;the -'Government. in' offering-Ho :■ the Ad- . . miralty a first-class' battleship 'on behalf . - of.Now Zealand." - ../.'• -''Mr.; : BiUSsdL>said that, in vth© cciirso this was-not tho "pla^at;whicli political matter would be referred to.'. •hiad,L however, been a great' national /crisis when .the inadp the: offer,; arid it had ' created a great deal, of commotion.. The cori- . :'stitUtional. aspect:of; the question would: be. considered -at. the ; proper time by : the : rcpre-; ■sentatives. of the * people in Parliament,'assembled. He thought that tHe Government had risen to a great'occasion', and, tho board, ; '-representing more, than any .other body tho entire .province, of Canterbury, was entitled'; to say on behalf of those it represented that ■.it i endorsed: tbo action .'of,the Government./. Mr. W, -ir. Montgomery, seconded the motion, which lie confessed had talcen' him by' surprise; .' -The Government had' taken action at ; "a;timo "when it/believed ..that there/was a . crisis..;/ It;:was. an action wliich-Jshoiild ; bo; approved, by, oVeryorie,.'and. would'- give the world; an . indication, of; the patriotic sentiment of tho colonies, .and'perhaps help to •: ltetfo; foreign hands, off the' Empire. ' .-.The. motion .was carried : •