AUSTRALIA'S NAVY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1358, 8 February 1912, Page 5

AUSTRALIA'S NAVY.

PROPOSAL FOR NEW ZEALAND CADETS. The first step likely to be taken towards naval co-operation between Australia and New Zealand (states the Melbourne "Age") will bo tho invitation from the Commonwealth Government to the Dominion Government to send cadets to the Koyal Naval College. New Zealand now sends ten cadets yearly to the Royal Mililnrv College, under an agreement made by tho last Administration, and pays .£2OO a year per cadet for instruction, maintenance, and pay. Some such arrangement in connection with the naval college is contemplated by Federal Ministers. Tho difficulty is that, whereas New Zealand has a military system similar to that of Australia, she has determined not to build a navy, but to rely on tho British Pacific fleet. She is, nevertheless, trainill,,; some of her sons as naval officers, sending them to' the Dartmouth College in England. An arrangement, whereby New Zealand naval cadets would be trained in Australia instead of Great Britain, would be welcomed by the Admiralty, relieving it of pressure on accommodation nt Dartmouth, and would meet with approval certainly in Australia, and probably in New Zealand. These lads would servo in tho Australian or the British Navy until New Zealand owns her own vessels.