DOMINIONS AND EMPIRE.
' PRIME MINISTER’S VIEWS. NECESSITY FOR UNITY. Speaking at the Reform Party banquet at Christchurch, the Prime Minister said that when he was in London one point he would have to look after was that of Imperial connection with the Dominions. The Dominions, so far as he was concerned, were not independent nations, who could do what they liked, and what little influence he could use would be used in the direction of a united Empire. Our very existence in the Pacific depended upon a united Empire, and the existence of that Empire depended on the supremacy of the British Navy. Touching on Samoa, Mr. Massey said the question of possession was not what benefit it would be to New Zealand, but that other nations should not be able to gain possession of those islands, which were really the key of the Pacific. Regarding the latest addition to the New Zealand Navy, Mr. Massey said H.M.S. Chatham was not expected to act as a warship, but as a protection for commerce. The little cruiser was a sister ship to the Sydney, apd if the Sydney was good enough to sink the Emden, her sister was good enough for our purposes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1921, Page 7
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202DOMINIONS AND EMPIRE. Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1921, Page 7
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