DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA.
■;• THE/NAVAL, :£ J . REPLY TO MR FISHER.^/^O Press; Association-By Tclogrnpli-CopyVfelyi ;,:y;\ • MELBOURNE, February ;iii>";/..# '■ Mr Cook (Minister of Dcfencc), ; . : conV; : ' ; '-' menling onl Mr -Fisher's speech, ■•says':?;' ,-:7>; " It is so much moonshine for Mr FisHeWfi 1 to try to ; creale the impression, that Mlio '' Government's naval scheme was his ',' : il party's.. The two schemes are. quite-■ 'S distinct, and have a different purpose and ':'! a different objective. They arc only/alike' . - 'in that Air' Fisher's vessels are an almost ■ % infinitesimal item in theirs. What the ;; : 'A Fisher' Government did in the-way' of in- .'' laugurating a new navy was to order three .? small boats, and instead of getting the - •; best advice'of the naval authorities' in -M Great Britain-it put the'matter in the .V; hands of a private naval architect; .who was,.bs;ng- paia 2 per cent, commission 1 c''. to'supervise them." ' . '."■ /'..',;: v.'
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14756, 12 February 1910, Page 7
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141DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14756, 12 February 1910, Page 7
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