TO DISCUSS DEFENCE

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 89, 9 January 1935, Page 9

TO DISCUSS DEFENCE

Dominion Prime Ministers

TIME OF KING’S JUBILEE

London, January 7

Sir Maurice Hankey spent most of the morning with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister, and fully dealt with his defence discussions in the four Dominions.

Sir Maurice will shortly confer with the Committee of Imperial Defence, of which he is secretary, which will prepare a comprehensive date for the Dominion Prime Ministers’ defence discussions during the King's Silver Jubilee gathering. »

NO REQUEST MADE

Sii’ M. Hankey in Dominion

By Telegraph—Press Association

Christchurch, January 8.

“No request of any kind was made by Sir Maurice Hankey when he conferred with us a few weeks ago? stated the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, in reply to a question as to whether the Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence had asked while in New Zealand for the reinstitution of compulsory military service or for greater armaments expenditure. Mr. Forbes said that Sir Maurice Hankey met Cabinet at a speciallyconvened meeting, and all that took place was that the steps taken by New Zealand in the past year were clearly stated to Sir Maurice, who expressed himself as satisfied with what he had heard. He made no request of any kind at all.

AMERICA’S DEFENCES

Highest Peace-time Budget In Country’s History

Washington, January 7.

President Roosevelt has asked Congress to appropriate 792,484,265 dollars for the Army and Navy in the next financial year, the greatest peace-time defence Budget in the history of the United States.