THE BRITISH NAVY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 17 May 1912, Page 5

THE BRITISH NAVY.

MR CHURCHILL'S OBJECTIVE

THE MOTHERLAND AND HER

DAUGHTERS

ar CABLE—PBEBB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, May 16.

Speaking at the Shipwrights' Company's banquet, Mr Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) said that his duty was to again ask Parliament for men, money and materials. If the additional Estimates were not so large as he hoped, or others feared, the Government hoped to convince Parliament that what they asked for was necessary and sufficient. It was essential that the fleet should be concentrated in the decisive threatre of European waters, thus creating a new want" and affording a new opportunity for the overseas dominions. "We could, if need arose," he said, "despatch a strong squadron to aid the dominions when menaced or attacked, but the main development for the next decade must be the growth of an effective overseas naval force. We would then be able to make a true division of labor —the Motherland to maintain supremacy at the decisive point, while the daughter States would guard and patrol the rest of the Empire."