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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9624, 15 March 1910, Page 4

The New Zealand Herald comforts us with the assurauce that wa uoed not, as yot, be afraid of a hostile aerial fleet iv New ZeaUucl. , Our couteinporary. writes:—"iv tho introduction of aviation, wo are perhaps drawing aside a curtain covering unknown possibilties wliqu considered iv their relation to aorial warfare, but for the present wo may, at any rufco at this side of tho world, sleep peacefully in tho knowledge that nmuy yoars must elapso before either aeroplanes or dirigible balloons reach a stage which would oiniblo them, even with ships as then , base of operations, to do na any practical harm in this country, even if any Powor could find the requisite volunteers to load such a forlorn hope." There seems to be an apprehension in some quarters that all the Powers want to capturo Now Zealand, but wo doubt whether auy single one of them seriously contemplates invading this country.