PACIFIC NAVY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13427, 8 July 1914, Page 4

PACIFIC NAVY.

DIFFERENCES OF OPINION

(Froib. bur Parliamentary Reporter.) , "WEtLI^G^bN, tlijs .-5ay.,.." Ministerial followers are not iinani-, mous Over the Government's, change of haVal .j policy; ,-Mr- Reli (Wellington! Suburbs}, m. a speech last night, svipwed, a (jeparture. irotii the official Ministerial, vifew, which is all th© more interesting., hecause he is' the son of a Cabinet. Minister. Mr Bell, junr., told the l( ;pbuse. that -he. was ..against local training, because it coulq, not bo nearly, so .effective as if the men were ntle to iliove through the branches of a great fleet.. \Anothor objection 'ho 'had to the Government's proposals was that the next -War was not likely to take place iii the. Pacific, and if it did the snips we possessed woiild lie absolutely iniiclcquate tio deal with the situation. Oppositionists: "Hear,' hear." '""Still, Mr Bell added,, he waß , gojmg, to» yoto, for. the Go yermn ent. lie favored •*• tho . .policy , fli Cpn^ripiitioii, but if New Zealand money simply -went to reduce 'tlie '^English tiaval' estimates, then he preferred the Government scheme. ...Qprdial approval of Mr Bell's can,did expression came Irom Mr H. 0. EU, who declared that safety of every branch of the , English-speaking, rage , depended on the! maintenance of a, powerful navy m Hoiuo waters., , The jilihistry, on the contrary. favorecT'.a local, navy. "No,'' collected tlie Prime Minisfei-, "a Pncihc navy:"; ■■■_„: .;. „,„ _y ..;„.;. ....