DEBT TO DOMINION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19195, 8 December 1925, Page 10

DEBT TO DOMINION.

AUSTRALIAN WAR SUPPLIES, SOME SMALL ADJUSTMENTS. VISIT BY SIR NEVILLE HOWSE. [BY TELEGRAM.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLING TON. Monday. Sir Neville Howse, V.0., Minister for Defence in the Commonwealth of Australia, arrived at Wellington by the Makura to-day. He is accompanied by Lady Howse, Colonel T. J. Thomas, financial secretary to the. Commonwealth Defence Department, and Mr. F. A. McLaughlin, private secretary. The mission on which Sir Neville Howse has come to New Zealand has reference to the adjustment of some small accounts for munitions and war stores supplied by New Zealand to Australia during the Great War. His stay in the Dominion will be brief, as ho purposes returning on Friday from Auckland. Before leaving, Sir Neville Howse and his partyhope to visit Rotorua. " This is not 'my first visit to Now Zealand," he remarked, when interviewed. " I was here in 1905, when I visited Rotorua, and 1 have been longing ever since to get another glimpse of that delightful place." The major items in regard to war supplies had been settled between New Zealand and Australia some years ago, he said, but a few final adjustments remained to be made, hence his visit, There was not a largo amount of money involved in the transactions which remained to be disposed of, and he had no doubt that a complete adjustment would now be possible. Sir Neville Howse was disinclined to express his views on the question of further co-ordination between New Zealand and Australia in regard to defence, but. said he had no doubt there would be complete co-operation if the necessity arose. He referred to the fact that the New Zealand and Australian naval units met occasionally for combined training.