PACIFIC PRESTIGE
AID IN BRITAIN’S EMERGENCY ROLE SUGGESTED FOR DOMINION Parliamentary Reporter, WELLINGTON, Oct. 31. “ Did New Zealand intend to take a fuller share in maintaining British prestige in the Pacific? ” asked Mr W. H Fortune (Oppn., Eden) in notice of a question to the Minister of Defence, Mr F. Jones, in the House of Representatives to-day. He also inquired if New Zealand would offer to take over from the Imperial Government for the period of the present emergency another cruiser and some destroyers, fullymanned, and to operate them in such areas as the British Admiralty might desire.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26607, 1 November 1947, Page 9
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