SIR JOSEPH WARD

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18069, 17 March 1923, Page 9

SIR JOSEPH WARD

THE CAMPAIGN IYIEWS ON NAVY. PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM TE PUKE, Friday. Sir Joseph Ward visited Papamoa to-day, and addressed meetings of settlers at both school houses, getting good hearings. In the afternoon he briefly addressed the children of Te Puke District High School, and then went to the Public Works Department quarry near Te Puke, where he addressed a number of men ana women, after knock-off time. This evening Sir Joseph adr dressed a crowded meeting- at the Alliance Hall here, on similar lines as the meeting at Tauranga last night, and in addition expressed the opinion that New Zealand should make reasonable contribution towards such navy as was necessary to maintain trade routes. When the time arrived, a general reduction in armaments was possible, hut present difficulties could not be adjusted until the Double between Germany and France was righted, in which he believed France was right. Until 200,000,000 people on the Continent now out of the trade of the world were in a position to once again trade, it was necessary to have some system of world exchange. , A hearty vote of. ilmnks and confidence was carried by acclamation. ■ ——