AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 57, 1 April 1909, Page 2

AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE.

■Am. FISHKU C.VUSIKXY CKITTCiSLD IiiiAMTV OF SITUATION NOT AI'PKECUTED.

Mr l.'i I, .• dllt 'J'> llar <* 31. -Mi. J'i,lier estimated that the naval onsfruction would year, .CBS(),UUO in the second ■ini .mi,um i„ ,i,c third * n * • . ««* would cost TZ ."...ami z mm in the next. ihe Sydney Morning Herald declares '" , "; ti, '" I >' ""'V "" "« Hdi ill (U'll'JU'l! OIK'S linn If .. i VMheenlrt;;;: of construct,,,,, and maintenance Withont ''"'" 8«»'i"8 I'-eul inununi •a tie s.ne time, and ,t fail, „ 10 , t i, ';. "" ™^'misreads the signs of ~,,.' "■ .' s '"" ll "'t he i.s helping the E.npirc with a destroyer fleet ' 1"; S<y.il.'.v Daily Telegraph ' L '•'tllial the destroyers ,nl LhL ,„,- 1 ss .a ached to a deep-sea 50u,,,!™,. Ui. clear .merest and manifest duty h ol„ n ngt "'" ""', " Cl,t whi «*. *«*■ si." "' ■ s,, ",V"" kos invasion i m p o9 . i 7 "'V'" 1 ' 1 ' 5,,|, "" ,L ' '«"«•"»« "it is a fraudulent ,lel„ 5 io„ M „ d jus ? U " , Mr , VrT.r "'V'*"'* weakpK ol -Mi hshcrs policy protrudes."

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-VOTK ISSUK AXj) BU. VKH cuiKUcii:. Air I'll , , ° ym P k '' M » re li 31. J■■ >i«.nr declared tl lttt tllL , „ j. J, »f,*t scheme ««s „oi p„|j,. v ttl jt„_ '1,,, "J 1 . ° P»l'»lar ol.m.onr, because lu ; believed it was un wrong lines. ,„, ,'° «""ij»«ls«ry training scheme pro»hcs that , ll( k.t s should "commence> „, .'" ■V' 1 '' s "' " s '' '""' 8° u " I'll thi-y are •»l'l't.v-om-. It will entail an inilhil '-V 0. X.,Su,OOU. The cost of the ■ -ivcar will he £1,200,000 ami it will 'J'' 1 , 1 , :l " m " m "» »f £1,407,000 in tie ->\}n year.

iln naval scheme proposes m addition to the tnree destroyers already orileied, four ocean destroyers and sixteen rner class destroyers.

-Mr. fisher foreshadowed a Commonwealth note issue and tile militia- of a silver coning,, which, together, would produce a revenue to the extent „l t'IIID.IHM).

He also foreshadowed an amendment '." '.'"' ~," '""li«t a, regards new protection.

The federal (jovcruinciit, he saiil was not going In the ney market oil anv condition whatever until a settlement was reached over the State dclits .pies.

lie considered tli.it the appointnieiit of a High Commissioner was a necessity.