NAVAL DEFENCE.
LOED BEASSEY’S VIEWS. [Per Press Association.] SYDNEY, March 30. Lord Brassey, referring to the question of naval defence, says that the British fleet can never be too large, so vast are the interests to be protected; but he cannot express any other feeling than that of satisfaction at the present naval position. He considers that what the mother country is doing, has done and intends to do, is sufficient for the protection of every part of the Empire, and thinks when the time arrives that the colonies are further advanced and their resources are much greater, they would naturally look for the creation of a powerful Australasian squadron, paid for by the colonies and not by Great Britain. He did not, however, think the moment propitious or necessary for raising the question. The mother country is doing all that she should do, and she would be bound to do what she is doing, whether she had colonies or not, for the protection of her own trade.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCV, Issue 10920, 31 March 1896, Page 5
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