NAVAL DEFENCE.
AN AUSTRALASIAN DUTY. WHITE POWER IN THE PACIFIC. By TelocraDh-Prcas Association-Copyright (Rec. January 28, 9.50 p.m.) Sydney, January 28. ■ Senator Pearoe, Minister for Defence, in a.speech'at the-Government Dockyard Employees' picnic, said Australia did not' intend to allow the question of naval development to rest where it was. They were only on the fringe of it, and that the future would bo big was apparent to anyone who looked ahead. They were the predominating white race in the South Pacific, and including Now Zealand, they were tho only white race. If the whites were to play any part in the history of the Pacific that part would be played by Australasians. That .was a tremendous responsibility, but ho believed that Australasia would be capable of rising to it and fulfilling her destiny. '
Senator Pearce declared that Australia would have spent ,£5,500,000 on its navy by the end of 1913.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1660, 29 January 1913, Page 7
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150NAVAL DEFENCE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1660, 29 January 1913, Page 7
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