AUSTRALASIA AND THE NAVY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 7

AUSTRALASIA AND THE NAVY.

{e^,. to _a_ SubjecT on i which. Hitherto -I havo offer ho comment. >When Sir : ■ ;W f s ■ paSslug through Melbourne Worded ! n ° rt ' er ; ; to ipress upon; him :th« ; m . u ' u ®' advantages which would result ''■ -'-Austral?^'wE n J W ' or ' the ' n4Tal ■ Uefeiice of - t: Wiatevcr. our. several ''eonirflm. pr<?ve • be after the consultation ■ '■S*»».'dear that in their Lrtii niust form a •much more ef■':theM ?«as.i:At that time Sir '/ .Y aI ' d . ', eip f?SMd his consent,: and un. : : , a ' propositions of that: kind ... his-jnost .careful consideration,- From -this'l l; . , had. augured- the possibility ..of an-Australasian il;';:.«•».»?< of' the. Australian, which' renteBents tho result of our efforts. In our LI my,colleague;"Mr.--Postal. - 5 C M r^ 0 and X have ■ re £!f- ' a ? n ' 01,1 >' Wi. correspondence with what persistence and energy ho had,endeay. ° U^^<L nri! i°» action.; • There will .bo a :.. ' British naval, force on the coast of New Zealand, .lyhicn, 1 .take..it, will necessarily eooperate with tho /'Australian,'unit: in tin™ of ' - v Wflr # '..and • probably ;,oti:occasion*-during peac*.1 : At : ,.the. parae.hmc,. I . to assume thai ; au^Auatralasian^naval. /forces supported -bv *ne:.Gomffipiiwcatth.indahs,;ltom'ljitori'> in--wo.- ; : Portion^to! population, or to shipping, ns tho .■ : COM: inight : be, will probably bo found -to furanh tho best guarantee for the protection of ; ) r»:cccao.: hi j hwiyauand our shores,". ••