NEW ZEALAND NAVY.
VIEWS OF OVERSEAS VISITOR. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 4. “I’ll tell you how to save som* money. "Why not send your toy navy Home?” This was the remark of Mr Charles H. Roberts, of Selkirk, Scotland, this morning, in discussing taxation in New Zealand. “It seems to me,” he added, “that the only use your navy serves is a social one, going from port to port.” Mr Roberts is a New Zealander by birth and is a son of the late Sir John Roberts, but he has spent tho last forty years in Scotland, and is principal of the firm of George Roberts and Co., woollen manufacturers. He said that New Zealand could save half a million pounds a year by giving up her navy. “Of what use would the present navy be in times of emergency? You probably like to think you have a navy,” he said, “but after all, is it worth it?” . Aerial defence seemed to be the most suitable means for the defence of New Zealand, he said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 82, 5 March 1935, Page 6
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