DEFENCE OF THE PACIFIC.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 19 June 1914, Page 5

DEFENCE OF THE PACIFIC.

A NEW ZEALANDER. ABROAD. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 18, 8.35 p.m. Sydney, June 18. Mr. Parr, Mayor of Auckland, in an interview, said he was confident that a great majority of the people of New Zealand were dead against sending money Home merely to strengthen the North Sea fleet. "If we send a quarter te'r of a million, it just means that Mr. Lloyd-George would reduce his own estimates by that amount, and wc would be no better off in the Pacific. The solution of the problem is the union of Australia, New Zealand and Canada for naval defence."

OUR DEFENCE ON LAND AND J SEA. Per Press Association. Blenheim, Last Night. Hon. Jas. Allen, Minister of Defence, in the course of an address to a large audience in the Town Hall to-night, touched on the question of defence. Hh said that General Sir lan Hamilton's report was ready, and he hoped to hand .copies x tp the Press and members-of Parliament on Monday. It was a very outspoken criticism of what the General had seen in New Zealand, and he was sure the people would be pleased with it. Touching on naval defence, Mr. Allen declared that Sir Joseph Ward at the London Conference had proposed to tax every man, woman and child in the Dominion 10s per head for naval defence. He also proposed to borrow millions and millions to keep a fleet of Dreadnoughts in the Pacific. What did they think of that for naval expenditure ?