THE GIFT BATTLESHIP.
■ & ■'■ STATEMENT BY MB. MASSEY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.! Auckland, May 24. With reference to the recent decision of Cabinet to allow the gift battleship New Zealand to be stationed where the Home Government desires, instead of having her placed on the China Station as originally intended, the Leader of the Opposition {Mr. Masscy) was asked for an expression of opinion by a reporter to-day. "Wβ regard tho question," said Mr. Massey, "as an Imperial matter, and quite above party politics. I am satisfied to leave it to the Imperial Government to say where the battleship will be of most use to the Empire." More than that, Mr. Messoy remarked, ho could not say.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1449, 25 May 1912, Page 4
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115THE GIFT BATTLESHIP. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1449, 25 May 1912, Page 4
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