FIFTY YEARS AGO
DEFENCE OF COMMERCE Preparations were being made by Great Britain half a century ago to ensure safety of her sea-going commerce. The following extract is from a leading article on the subject published in the New Zealand Herald of March 9, 1888: — "Scarcely a day now passes without a telegram bringing us information of the arrangements being made for guarding the sea-roads of British commerce. The latest announcement is that the Navy is to be augmented by nine armoured and 13 unarinoured vessels. These are to be all of the swift, oceangoing class, suitable for the work of patrolling, inasmuch as it was officially stated a short time back that the authorities do not intend for a period at any rate, to build any more huge iron-dads. "The interest and energy exhibited in such matters is in striking contrast to the apathy and official neglect, over which quite recently there was a sensation. The Government having been moved, now seems to be moving with a will. And though the threatened war is likely to stand postponed, it is rightly considered that a time of peace is the season for certain suitable preparations."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22982, 9 March 1938, Page 10
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195FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22982, 9 March 1938, Page 10
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