THE NAVAL BASE.
A PLEA FOR PICTON. (Fnoir Oue Own Correspondent.! WELLINGTON, November 18. Notice of the following question to the Primo Minister has been given by the member for Wairau (Mr J. Duncan):— " Whether, in view of the new arrangements entered into between the Admiralty and the New Zealand Government in respect to naval matters, with the resultant necessity for selecting in the near future a centrally-situated and otherwise suitable harbour as a. naval base, the Government will take steps to bring under the notice of, and urge upon, the Admiralty the fact that Queen Charlotte Sound possenses all the essential requirements for a naval base in the highest degree, such as central position, accessibility in all weathers, adaptability for impregnable defence, safe and easy navigation, with a channel of sufficient depth for the largesttype of man-of-war, the existence of many and good .situations for the construction of docks, etc., within the harbour, and an extension of the railway would give the best coaling station within the Dominion?"
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14686, 20 November 1909, Page 11
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169THE NAVAL BASE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14686, 20 November 1909, Page 11
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