THE NAVY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13092, 4 June 1913, Page 3

THE NAVY.

NEW ZEALAND'S ATTITUDE

COMMENTED ON

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Con y.rjgbt.);; (Received June 4, 10.20 a.m.r ' * SIDNEY, June 4. Referring to Mr Allen's guarded statement the Telegraph frays: — "Mr Allen's present hints seem to indicate that he favors the separate "unit policy at first proposed by the Ward Govenrment, and then virtually abandoned. New Zealand has a comparatively small 'population, and is to a serious; extent isolated. Whether it can afford any-> I thing more .than a mosquito fleet 1 , which « Mr Allen deprecates, is, to say the least, questionable., and 'if New Zealand ' cannot provide and rrtaintain anything! better than a mosquito fleet, then' 'as a* •partner of Australia and Canada -m keeping the Pacific for Britain it! r will not count for much." -. AUCKLAND, this d»y. : When the Sydney Telegraph's ..cabled comments were brought under , ,Mr Allen's notice, the Minister saic} 'tlriC the Ward Government had never ad- « Canoed a separate, unit policy, but." had suggested that direct contributions; l lra made to the Imperial Government. .to be Expended as the British Admiralty; thought fit. This, Mr Allen declared, i was a very different thing to a separate unit policy. He could not "understand the reference to a mosquito fleet. As Understood by the,' Government it was , a fleet of submarines and torpedo boat i destroyers, adopted for the defence of , the coast harbors of Great Britain. I