THE BRITISH NAVY

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5608, 3 May 1919, Page 2

THE BRITISH NAVY

NEW ZEALAND'S SHARE WEN AND MONEY WANTED. • By Telegraph.—Press Association.) UI'NKDIN, tail day. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Otago branch of the Navy League the Minister for Defence said it was impossible, at the present moment to give any idea of what our own naval policy should be. Lord Jellicoe was on liis way to give advice. It was never in his (Sir James Allen’s) mind to create a special navy belonging to New Zealand, but if we were to protect the seas every part of the empire would have an apportuuity to take its share. It was not sufficient that we should pay yearly a certain sum of money. We must pay for our protection in men, and it would be an ere i lasting disgrace to New Zealand if the motherland had to enter into any naval combat in which New Zealand was not represented by some of its manhood. If we valued j our freedom it would be our duty to take a share and train our men for a unit in the Imperial navy.