PROPOSED AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8815, 17 May 1907, Page 2

PROPOSED AUSTRALIAN NAVY.

Condemned By Camrthers. Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, May 17. Mr Oarruthers, interviewed on the Federal proposal for a separate navy, - said he was not at all in favour of it. Ho considered that the protection of Australia consisted iu the fact that she was a dependency of an Empire with the greatest naval force iu tho world, aud that whatever was done there was part of the general scheme of Imperial naval defence , but it was proposed to set that all aside and start on their own account, contrary to the advice of those who have forgotten more than Australia had ever learnt. The whole tiring was a sop to a section of the community that, if not openly, was covertly disloyal to English supremacy.