HOME DEFENCE.
ADEQUATE MEASURES URGED, PROTECTION OF DOMINION.
Commenting that the international outlook was bleak, and rearming had proceeded at an extraordinary pace during the last twelve months, Air 11. Morrison (Wairarapn) moved at the interprovincial conlerence of the Farmers’ Union in Feilding, to-day, that the Government he asked to define its attitude towards the home defence of the Dominion.
There was a definite armaments race, proceeded Mr Morrison. Over-popula-ted parts of the world were seeking an expansion of territory and Japan had definitely refused to give up her Pacific mandated islands. New Zealand was the pearl of British possessions, and like the sister Dominions, must take adequate protective measures. Armament acceleration invariably culminated in war, added Air Morrison.
Air E. W. Barnett (Halcoinbc) seconded the remit pro forma, but suggested that it did not go far enough, and that the Government should bo urged to provide adequate home defence on land and sea, and particularly in the air. It was agreed to substitute a motion on these lines for the original remit, though one voice emphatically dissented.
The remit, as amended, was then carried.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 150, 27 May 1936, Page 9
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185HOME DEFENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 150, 27 May 1936, Page 9
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