IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14538, 25 November 1907, Page 7

IMPERIAL DEFENCE.

United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received November 24, 4.50 p.m.) LONDON, November 23. Colonel Seely, presiding at the annual dinner of the Imperial Federation Defence Committee, urged the reconstruction of the Committee, adding representatives of both political parties and the colonies. General Hutton regarded Mr Haldane's and Lord Tweedmouth's adoption of the principles of co-opera-tion in matters of defence as highly important. Sir Gilbert Parker thought that more practical work had been accomplished by the Colonial Conference on the military than on the naval side. Colonial naval defence ought to be proportionate with the growing wealth of the colonics. Mr Harold Cox said the colonies and Motherland ought to make a fair bargain. It was unfair to leave the whole burden to the Motherland.