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THE MEMBER FOR AWARUA

ON NAVAL DEEENCK. By Telegraph- I'ir.-s Association. 1 _ Auckland, Monday. Sir Joseph Ward, who is at present in Auckland, was interviewed concerning liig views on the part which Canada is expected to play in the scheme of Imperial naval defence. Sir Joseph Ward said that he was glad to see the Canadian Government moving in the direction that the Home cablegrams indicated. In his judgment the scheme which Mr. Borden and his Ministers were apparently arranging with the Admiralty was the very best that could be decided upon. Personally he had always been against isolated local navies upon the broad and potent ground that the defence arid maaintenance of the Empire could only be effectively carried out by having one great Imperial Navy allocated as those responsible for the protection of the Empire as a whole thought best at the outposts, and all the time under one control. The Empire had grown tremendously, not by aggregation of fresh territory,'which no one wanted to see, but by the marvellous expansion of trade and commerce, and the increase of its people, particularly in the outlying portions over which the' British flag flies. The action of Canada in this matter, added Sir Joseph Ward, was on the same lines as that which New Zealand adopted when giving its contribution for the Dreadnought, and the fact that the Home authorities had decided to place the Dominion's gift in the North Sea ileet confirmed, in a most convincing way, the stand which ho had always taken for a great united fleet centred wherever the controlling authorities thought best in the interests of the Empire, as the safest and strongest course. He felt very proud to see these early developments, for he had personally and, in different parts of the world, and in Canada itself, urged the principle of a great united Empire Navy with portions of it placed in the waters of the overseas Dominions. The sooner this was carried out the better Sir Joseph Ward believed it would be for the peoples in all parts of the Dominion.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 62, 31 July 1912, Page 3

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THE MEMBER FOR AWARUA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 62, 31 July 1912, Page 3

THE MEMBER FOR AWARUA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 62, 31 July 1912, Page 3

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