DEFENCE OF THE PACIFIC.
THE NEW ZEALAND POLICY. [Bt Eleotbjo Telegraph—-copyright] [Unitep Presb ASSOCIATION. I (Received 9 a.m.) Sydney, December 8. The* Hon. G. P. Pearce, Conimonwealth Minister of Defence, considers 1 the department extravagantly adminisitered, and foreshadows economics. He said he noticed considerable ratification | by"* the New Zealand Minister, of .Defence (the Hon. J. Alien), who declares himself dissatisfied with-the departure from the 1909 agreement. To 'those who take a serious view of the Pacific question, it must be pleasing that Xew Zealand is apparently anxi- • otis that its effort in the direction of naval defence should take place a little nearer its own shores.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 83, 8 December 1913, Page 2
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