AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION
MR FISHER ON NEW ZEALAND’S ATTITUDE. MELBOURNE, January 21. Mr Fishier takes an optimistic view of the prospect of New Zealand eventually forming a part of an Australasian Federation. Within five years, he thinks, there will be an agreement between the Commonwealth and the Dominion on defence, and within 20 years New Zealand may join the Federation. He does not wish to be definite as to the date of the incorporation of the Dominion with the Commonwealth. Any period may elapse, he says, before it is accomplished, but he sets down 20 years as a speculative indication. Many Australian politicians, he adds, think that with the Labour party seeking to force the pace towards unification the objections to the probability of New Zealand forming a political compact will become more remote.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3019, 24 January 1912, Page 26
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