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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 54, 27 November 1926, Page 9

It. is difficult, ■ indeed, -to understand how anv Dominion can feel easy.in its mind unless it is paving its full share of the cost of naval defence. New Zealand’s share would amount to a great' deal more than a million sterling a year, and disagreeable as it mav be to find so large a sum. it cannot be so disagreeable to honest men as a continued sponging upon a community which has for so long made heavv sacrifices that our people should live in comfort and in safety Whatever the other Dominions mav do- cannot affect' the- dutv of New Zealand, and the 'sooner the people and Parlta metit realise that our contribution to the'cost-of niival defence must be large lv' increased the better it will be— Christchurch." Press.”