THE MORAL OF THE OFFER

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 15 April 1909, Page 5

THE MORAL OF THE OFFER

The Prime Minister, speaking at the Chamber of Commerce dinner in Wellington on Tuesday night, expressed great pleasure at the manner in which the conference had shown its approval of what the Government had done to assist in making the British navy stronger than it was. He wished to remark that it was not the value of the bittleship, or, indeed, of a dozen of them, that Avas going to have any effect ; but it was the moral which others would draw from the offer. (Applause.) If the idea was to get about for a moment that we were so stupid a com-

munity as to provide a battleship on the mere score of cost, it would be the very strongest condemnation of our action in every other part of the British Empire. If they had suggested the gift from the mere standpoint of pounds, shillings and pence, they should as a community expect a flat refusal, but we are not so ■foolish as to believe that the Old Land could not do all that was required, but we had to recognise that every part and poreel of the Empire was a vital point, and shou-ld pive assistance. The aim was to show in the mosb determined manner that we were an integral part of the British Empire. (Applause.)

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