BOROUGH COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 463, 23 March 1909, Page 6

BOROUGH COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS.

(DT TELEGIUriI—I'KESS ASSOCIATION'.) Timaru, March 22. At a meeting of tho Timaru Borough Council to-night the Mayor mul Councillors oxpressed great satisfaction at the action of the Government in deciding to prcsont tlio Mother Country with a battleship, and decided to forward a motion of appreciation to the Prime Minister. The motion was carried unanimously, and the councillors, immediately on passing it, rose and sang a verse of the National Antliom.

thing was that Australia should bo so secure in her own defence that ail enemy would bo frightened to attack; That would bo a greater assistance to 'Britain than the giftooff f a Dreadnought. Ho proposed to with the wholo question of defence policy m a specch next Monday. EX-PRIME MINISTER'S VIEWS. , . Sydney, March 22. In his speech at Munvillumbah—in the course of which ho said that the spirit suggesting the presentation of a Dreadnought

reciprocating engines—it may bo pointed out that forecasts have already credited her with Parsons' turbines of 45,000 h.p. and n speed of -253 .knots, while the Indomitable has 41,000 h.p. and a speed of M knots. Of course, Britain is improving on tlio Indomitable, just as she is improving on the Dreadnought. It is said that the improved Indomitable will he called the Indefatigable. Ilow does she coinpare with the Von dor Tann? Against a tonnage of 18,700 tons, the Indefatigable, according to the forecast, will have a tonnage of 18,000. The horse-power in each ease will be the same, 45,000. In speed, tlie Indefatigable is expected to do 28 knots'urainst