FUTURE OF CHRISTCHURCH.
A POST, BUT NOT A NAVAL bAiiE.
Speaking at a meeting of wle Port Christchurch League, Dr. Thacker related that Lord Jellicoa had said Christchurch was too far south to be a naval base for New Zealand. The naval base would have to be at Whangaroa, or even further north. Christchurch would be too far from the scene of action should fighting occur in the Pacific. However, Lord Jellicoe had said that Christchurch was a seaport—if the people of Christchurch only knew it. Dr. Thacker added that 35 members of Parliament and nine Cabinet Ministers had expressed the opinion that the future of Christchurch depended on direct communication with the sea
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17347, 19 December 1919, Page 9
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