IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
NEW ZEALAND REP RESS NT A-
TION. [Per Press Association.] Wellington, July 18
The following letter was read at a meeting of the Canterbury Trades and Labor Council from the Hon. .1. Allen:—“I am in receipt of your letter of Juno'2s, forwarding a copy of a resolution passed at a meeting held on June 19. Ido not agree with your council that there is any danger in New Zealand of a Minister accepting an invitation to sit on the Committee of Imperial Defence, nor 'Jo I think that there would be any menace to the democracy in so doing. I think it would be of assistance to the democracy and also of our safety for a Minister to be there. The Committee of Imperial Defence is only advisory, and has no executive functions. 1 have als6 to inform you that I. as Minister representing New .Zealand, committed the country to nothing what ever, neither to a financial burden nor to anything else. All I have done is to bring back certain suggestions to the Cabinet. IF the Cabinet agrees they will be submitted to Parliament, and I trust Parliament will agree with the suggestions." The letter was
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 63, 19 July 1913, Page 6
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199IMPERIAL DEFENCE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 63, 19 July 1913, Page 6
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