AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

North Otago Times, 5 June 1913, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

4 13y Electric Teleiernt»b--Oopyrijrlit, Pur Press Association. ' ISvdncy, dune 4, .I'eferriiifr to Mr Allen's guarded- statement-, tlio telegraph s ?vs that Mr Allen's Presmit iiints seem to indicate tlipt. lie favors a separate' unit. This Polico- was at nrst nronounded tv Sir Joseph ' Ward's Government, a»d th"ii virtunJl v' abandoned. New Zealand has a comparatively small popula-: tion and is to a serious extent isolated, 'Whether or- not ishe can afford anything, more

[ than a mosquito lleot, which Mr Allen repudiates, is, to say the least, questionable, and, if Acw Zealand cannot provide ami maintain anything better than a mosquity licet, : then, as a partner of Australia, and Canat a, 1 keeping t] l(3 Pacific lor ißnlain, it will not counst tor much.