BISHOP CRIMES
WARMLY EULOGISES NEW ZEALAND'S OFFER. In proposing the toast, " The Army iUid Navy," at the Shackleton Expedition complimentary banquet at Christchurcb on Saturday, Bishop Grimes warmly eulogise^ rfew Zealand's offer of a Dreadnought, saying that anyone with a spark of true patriotism must be proud of the Premier's recent action in the -present great crisis. . (CKeere.) They wore proud of that action, and all those of the dominion worth speaking of were also proud. The spontaneous offer of a Dreadnought w»s a measuro of sound policy and a practical proof of the readiness of England's children to come to the help of the Motherland. It would be a great object lesson to the whole civiilised world, especially to those nations that required a lesson of the kind, and those who dreamed of getting up a New Zealand navy really did not know what they were thinking of. It was simply a day dream and the height of folly.
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Feilding Star, 5 April 1909, Page 2
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