DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA.
TIMELY ADVICE.
Received April 29, 9.42 a.m
SYDNEY, April 29
Lord Northcote, Governor-General of Australia, speaking at the celebration of the landing of Captain Cook, said that though it is perfectly certain that the Mother Country would discharge to the best of her ability her duty of defending Australia, yet it should not be forgotten that she was twelve thousand miles away, and .may have to fight at any moment in her own defence.
Australia, said his Excellency, should take a large share now in her own defence. Her present immunity could not be counted on as permanent. Let them call in advisers while it was time, and import for pioneers men who, like Cook and his followers, knew how to defend the land they had assisted in creating.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9078, 30 April 1908, Page 5
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132DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9078, 30 April 1908, Page 5
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