"ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!"

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1914, Page 5

"ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!"

MR ALLEN REPLIES'TO SIR

JOSEPH WARD

AUCKLAND., May 14. • | The statements made "by Sir Josephat Wellington in reference to naval defence were referred, to by the "Hon. Mr Allen last/night: The state*-, ment that "New ' Zealand will 'lose. "direct attachment to tiiie Imp^u-ml' Navy 'by carrying out the 'Govern- ; meiit's policy Avas characterised "by the1 as "absolute nonsense.'" ;■

"Such a thing," ho sard, "as a breach of our attachment to the •■British'■ navy would never lie .•ctiirtemplaifeil. It was never thought, of, and it was never dreamt; of. Sit Joseph Ward'knows this, and he is only trying to mislead the people. He knows that tihere'has be<*n: and that there is no attempt. on our part to create a. local mtv-y in the sense that he im•plies:"