“Why Not Send Toy Navy Home?”
SARCASTIC REFERENCE Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 4. “I’ll tell you how to save some money. Why not send your toy navy Home?” This was the remark of Air. Charles H. Roberts, of Selkirk, Scotland, this morning, in discussing taxation in Now 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 the last 40 years in Scotland, and is principal of tho 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 tho present navy be in times of emergency? “You probably liko to think you have a navy,” he said, “but after aTT, is it worth it?”
Aerial defence seemed to be the most suitable means for the defence of New Zealand, ho said.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 53, 5 March 1935, Page 6
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