SYDNEY PRESS VIEWS.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13055, 15 March 1911, Page 3

SYDNEY PRESS VIEWS.

A HEAVY BURDEN

Sydney, March 14

The "Herald," discussing Admiral Henderson's report, after a reference to the large capital outlay involved and the possibility of the estimates being conservative, says: "We do not assert that these things are impossible but we must look fairly in the face the chance of them being done, and not fritter away money and strength on trivial patchwork attempts to set such a scheme- afloat.

Tho "Telegraph" commends the value of the recommendations, but says that whether the Commonwealth could find the money to build and man the ships is problematical. Tlie paper strongly endorses Admiral Henderson's contention that the administration must he free of political infiuarice, but suggests that a navy taking 22 years to build was in danger of being obsolete before it was finished.