GROWING CONFIDENCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19379, 17 July 1937, Page 16

GROWING CONFIDENCE

DEFENCE OF BRITAIN FEELING OF SECURITY (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. The co-ordinated • plans of defence had given the people of England a greater feeling of security than they had had for many years, said Mr. R. J. Grimshaw, a recently retired constructor in the Royal Navy who arfrom England aboard the Arawa yesterday. Each naval base and dockyard in Great Britain had a highly-developed air base and the experts were constantly alert in their research for improved methods, he said.

The people in Britain were well aware that a great deal of money, energy and research was being devoted to the completion of the defence plans with the result that the average man appeared to give but little credence to frequent rumours about the prospect of another war. It seemed a generally accepted fact that, with her financiai resources and powerful naval, military and air units, and her standing among the world Powers, Britain had a proper claim to her long-standing title of the ’’world's policeman.” Mr. Grimshaw specialised in the construction of aircraft carriers, submarines and: destroyers at the Portsmouth dockyard and had to Ideal with the organisation of 15,000 &nt>loyees there, as well as many phases of labour control and finance in the dockyard.