GREAT MEETING IN SYDNEY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12498, 26 March 1909, Page 2

GREAT MEETING IN SYDNEY.

A SCENE OF ENTHUSIASM. PATRIOTIC RESOLUTIONS. Received March 26, 1 a.m. mi t it. S y dney ? March 25. ai. ■ i -kord Mayor presided at one of th« largest and most enthusiastic demonstrations ever held in Sydney, the object being the initiating of aDreadnovght. fund. Tie Town Hall was deusely packed, and the proceedings were constantly punctuated with the singing of patriotic songs. The speakers included Mr G H Reid, Mr Joseph Cook, Mr B. R. Wise and Mr Bruce Smith. The speeches were strongly patriotic and condemned the halting policy of tha. Commonwealth leaders, and urgent emulation of New Zealand, whose prompt and splendid response was eulogised. .The following resolutions were adopted :— "That in the opinion of this meeting of citizens, glorying in the traditions of the British race, the time has arrived for the Commonwealth to take ari active share in the naval defence of the Empire." "That in view of the expressed determination of Britain's rivals to challenge her naval supremacy, Australia should present a Dreadnought to the British Navy as an immediate expression of her invincible resolve to stand by the Mother Country and take her place in the Empire's fighting line." . ■