NAVAL DEFENCE QUESTION.
TRAINING OF SEAMEN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, August 31. Although no declaration of the naval defence policy was made in clear terms by either the Prime Minister or Mr Allen during.the recent debate' in the House, it was apparent from such guarded statements as'were made.bv both Ministers that the policy,, when it is announced, will provide for more than, the mere payment of a contribution to the. Imperial Government. , Ono of the most interesting of these announcements was made by Mr Massey in the last few words of his speech, when ho expressed the opinion that part of the naval policy of New Zealand should be to provide for the training of young men for the Imperial navv. This, it may be' presumed in the light of the Prime Minister's quite unreserved expression of opinion on. the paint, will probably, form part of the naval defence policy. The proposal has been mentioned before, but it has never previously .been' adopted by any other >evr Zealand Ministry.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15858, 2 September 1913, Page 5
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