EARL OF SELBORNE
VISIT TO DOMINION By Telegraph-Press Association AUCKLAND, February 5. Tile Earl of Selborne, a distinguished statesman and colonial governor who has held several important posts in the British Government, was a passenger on the Orient liner Otranto which a • rived at Auckland from Brisbane. fie is making his first visit to New Zealand. As a former First Lord of th? Admiralty, Lord Selborne definitely approves of Britain’s policy of naval expansion. “I am quite sure we must build up our fleet again,” he said. “I do not blame the Government for cutting down the Navy in the past, for the first thing to do after the war was to get our finances in order, but we cannot take risks now. Mussolini is not the only one with a swollen head. The Japanese are also getting ambitious.” Lord and Lady Selborne will leave the Otranto at Wellington and return to England by the Panama Canal route.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLI, Issue 20335, 6 February 1936, Page 8
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