WHAT MR. BALFOUR HAS NOT SEEN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 221, 27 October 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHAT MR. BALFOUR HAS NOT SEEN.

110SYTH, SHIPYARDS, AND MUNITION WORKS. Sir George "Foster, on 'behalf of the iepr?sentatives of'the Dominion Parliaments now concluding their vvsit to Great Britain, says a London paper >A thd 12th August, presented an address of thanks to Mr. Balfour, as chairman of the British branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association. Mr. Balfour, replying, sad the visit of the delegates had been of most momentous importance in the history of tlio inter-relation ot the different parts of tho Empire, adding: "There is not a man in this room who has been in this delegation who has ot seen a great deal more than any Minister of the Crown. 7 nave been first Lord of the Admiralty tor over fourteen months, and I have not visited Rosyth since I have occupied that position. I have never s< n mun'tion works. I have not been over tlio Tyne or th<Clyde under war conditions, and I have not, since I have been in office, been at the front. You, gentlemen, have seen ;!! these things, and you Live fc-"i i n )!■ : • ondit'ons .which enable •■ i, i.ite tiicir full s:gnilican<:'>. I i i i. I been in your place. i ; doubt that tin- C!ovc.-.i. . .. :•> predecessors Save mad" 1 ii of omission and roinini■--\V iy -ay without v.i nglnry or , . ~:•• ver, fhat when the war ■ had a small and in nil libers, an .. ieiufi ,'inl Army, and that now wo hive n great Army ■ gro'i* largely, because of your assistance, aim ere.it. also iC'in'm f his reentry lias thrown . ■ „_ tedl.' into the •i :i -k mi l !' ■■ . n lent of tnakin » !> E'l. "The \ e v, •- 'oubt, of all the prepnra' e-'. ; ■<■• at winch was n

the most satisfactory condition. But tho Navy, when we started, was really quite inadequately supplied with the smaller, lighter craft wlioso necessity has been made increasingly manifest ail through this war. 'lhe growth in our Navy, which has gone on'and which at this moment is still going is something of which 1 do not believe the geieral public has the slight*, 1 * conception.."