PACIFIC DEFENCE
A PREMATURE QUESTION. ■ "Do ycru intend to cive any indication before the House rises as to what, is going to ba tho future ■■ Imperial policy in the Pacific?" asked Dr. Thacker (.Christchurch East)' iri tlie' Hovise of Representatives yesterday;',: He - understood tliat there would be a delegation from Now Zealand to tho Imperial Government, probably before the war was over, and he desired to. know what the future defence policy of the Pacific was likely to be, and -what would be: the, composition of the Xew Zealand delegation.
11l reply the Prime Minister said that : the ilmperial defence : policy in-.tbe Pacific was a matter for'the Imperial Conference to' decide, and .ho. hoped that the conference would have an opportunity of meeting, at no distant date—he could not .suggest any . particular• date. New Zealand would be! represented at the confer-ence,-and he hoped it would be represented by Sir Joseph Ward (Minister of Finance) and himself.. . (Hear,- Eear.)
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2585, 6 October 1915, Page 3
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158PACIFIC DEFENCE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2585, 6 October 1915, Page 3
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