NEW ZEALAND'S ATTITUDE
STATEMENT BY DEFENCE MINISTER. (BT TBtEGBAPfI'— PBESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, This Day. There was no policy declaration at the Lawrence banquet, and, irrespective of Mr. Ma^sey's reference to Canada's naval policy (published on page 9), the speeches were of a complimentary order. The Hon. J. Allen said his dream had been that India. South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada Would one day join hands in forming a great Imperial Pacific fleet. (Applause.) How i\pat, apparently, they were already to the realisation of such a dream ! There were difficulties to be contended with in Canada, and it was only by time and arumeht they Gould bring the people of New Zealand to see what was right in regard to the defence problem. The British nation could never rest satisfied till it again had command of the sea-. He did not mean command for aggressive purposes, but that the command would permit Great Britain to carry on its peaceable occupation of trade as between one part of the Empire and another.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 7
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