THE AMERICAN FLEET.
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS IN SYDNEY. Received July 20, 9.56 a.m. SYDNEY.. July' 20. The 20th and 24th August have been proclaimed public holidays, in honour of the visit of the American fleet. WHAT IT WILL COST NEW ZEALAND. WELLINGTON, July 20. Sir Joseph Ward slated to-night that the whole cost of entertaining the American fleet would ba about per head of population. The estimated return, not from the visitors, but from the people -of this country, through their use of the public service, was elevenpence per head of the population, at the lowest estimatr. Th«y could not forget that this great Power with a great fleet was on friendly terms with 'Britain, and spent something like £50,000,000 in trade with the United Kingdom. The day would come when there would be a fight, probably in the Pacific, between the white races and those of the east for supremacy in these waters. When that fight took place the Old World could have the assistance of the American fleet, and they would find them fighting shoulder to shoulder to preserve to future generations the rights and privileges of all classes
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9144, 21 July 1908, Page 5
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190THE AMERICAN FLEET. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9144, 21 July 1908, Page 5
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