N.Z. AND THE WAR

Evening Star, Issue 16912, 9 December 1918, Page 4

N.Z. AND THE WAR

[Per United Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, December 9. Replying to Mr E. Newman in tho House to-dav, Tho Prime Minister said that_ days ago the Imperial authorities asked for details of what New Zealand 'had done in connection with the war—i.e., tho number of men sent, cost, etc., and he presumed that tho information was iu connection with the committee which had been preparing Britain’s bill against Germany under tho chairmanship of Mr W. M. Hughes, Premier of Australia. So far as the views of the Prime .Minister of New Zealand wore concerned, they were sot out in an interview in ‘ Tho Times ’ about a fortnight ago. If indemnities were possible, ho certainly thought New Zealand should share in them. Sir Joseph Ward said that when in England he was on the committee which was looking into this matter, and ho was satisfied that wo should receive a share of the indemnities Germany must pay, and he saw no reason why she should not pay the sinking funds of total loann raised by the British Empire until those loans were paid off. That point, he thought, should bo EtT Sir g James Alien said Government had recently sent to England the total cost of the war to New Zealand up to data, and the estimated cost up to March, 1919, With regard to Samoa, particulars had also been supplied with regard to enemy property there.