THE PREMIER IN DUNEDIN. Patriotic speach on "The Army and Navy."

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10588, 10 March 1902, Page 2

THE PREMIER IN DUNEDIN. Patriotic speach on " The Army and Navy."

Strengthening of Australian Squadron Favoured. (Per United Press Association.* DUNEDIN, March 10. At the banquet to Mr Cook, superintending engineer of the Union Coirpany, on Saturday night, the Hon. th? Premier, in replying to the toast of "The Army and Navy," maintained thr t it was to the Navy we should look tj maintain the- peace of. the world, and he believed it could be depended, oa in any crisis that might arise. He wes one that believed in looking ahead, and contended that the time had arrived when the Australian Squadron should be strengthened. It was his intention to support the strengthening of that squadron at the Premiers' Conference-. He proposed "that New Zealand shonlj subscribe on a population basis to tlia increased cost. . He thought that Japes was wise in its generation in signin.the Anglo-Japanese treaty, '- for thc^ could now Say to the world: "Peace— free trade, and fair trade." He, di 1 not favour the colonies having their -own navies, but considered that- tami thing should be done in the way oT training colonials for the Navy wrvicr