Defence of the Pacific

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 291, 4 September 1933, Page 11

Defence of the Pacific

Sir, —May I, as an English visitor to New Zealand, point out to the writer “An Englishman” (“Dominion,” September 2) that he has evidently not seen the letter written by “John Bull” to which • I replied. Whatever the writer may have gleaned from books as a child, has no bearing on the question of New Zealand s future population, or the danger of a Japanese invasion of the Pacific Isles. May I also point out that the suggestion that New Zealanders regard England as an immortal orange to be squeezed, is equally irrelevant. Whatever has been spent on the Dominions by the Old Country is little in. comparison with the numerous loans and grants that have been made by the Old Country to other nations. I suggest that if thp writer would explain his theory more clearly, .one might be able to see the point he attempts to bring home. —I am, etc., H. MARGUERITE ALLEN. Wellington, September 2.