AUSTRALIAN NAVY NOT WANTED.
MR REID ON DEFENCE.
CADETS INSTEAD. (Press Association.—By Telegraph.— Copyright). Received, Maroh 4, at 12.48 a.m. Sydney, Last Night. Mr Geo. Reid, M.P., speaking on defence, ridiculed the idea of an Australian navy and deolared that there was no neoessity for oompulsory military training. His policy for. the next ten years would be to make forts, garrisons, and offibero efficient. He would rather spend £BO,OOO on a Military College than on a torpedo destroyer. He would have a zealous cadet movement, and a universal system of school drill, and the establishment of faotorieß for the manufacture of small arms and ammunition.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 656, 4 March 1909, Page 5
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105AUSTRALIAN NAVY NOT WANTED. Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 656, 4 March 1909, Page 5
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