Not a Subsidy

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12734, 1 April 1909, Page 5

Not a Subsidy

LONDON, March 31. Mr Balfour, at the Agriculture Hall, criticising Mr Asquith's method of accepting New Zealand's Dreadnought, declared that such splendid patriotic liberality ought not to be used as a relief to the British taxpayer, or in subvention of the Motherland's pecuniary necessity, but should be treated as an additional guarantee of the maintenance of the Empire's supremacy.