ONE EMPIRE ONE FLEET.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1652, 20 January 1913, Page 6

ONE EMPIRE ONE FLEET.

| VISITING ADMIRAL'S OPINION.' (By Tolearach—l'rca! Association.) . January 19. y Tli« ideal.of ono Empire licet outlined in Mr. Miissey's-statement was approved by Vice-Admiral Tato in a conversation with a "Star"; reporter yesterday. ViceAdmiral Tate/ who lias just completed three years' service as Admiral Superiii-tendi-nt of the Portsmouth Dockyard, arrived in; Auckland by the Mdloja in continuation of a holiday tour which lio is making of the world. As a tailor and a ho could conceive of no cthof method of naval administration than the Onc-Enipirc-Ono-Fleet principle. A prominent citizen, he remarked, had eaiuto him, "Wo havo given, you a battleship, but wo are getting nothing in return for it." Such a contention, in Admiral Tate's opinion, could'not hold'for ono moment. There was ono fleet, and it was protecting tho trade of tho one Empire tff which wo all.belonged. Ships euifabto for immediate requirements wero stationed in various*parts of the Empire, and it was; just as much to'tlio interest of New- Zealand to support tho naval power in the North Soa, or the . Mediterranean,. or where it was required, as -it was to tho interest of Britain to support the naval power in the Pacific. T™ro was, 'ho thought no othor point of . view frim which to rigard' the question. Now Zealand had, ho thought; shown herself to' bo actuated' in a' marked degroo by the Imperial ideal.