COLONIAL NAVAL DEFENCE.
Nominally New Zealand's £2,000,000 will be used in building a Dreadnought for the China-Pacific station, wiiich includes New Zealand, but the F ritish Government, while accepting £2,000,000 from the colony with one hand will pay out with the other an almost equal sum for an effective force of cruisers, destroyers, and submarines, the headquartres of which will be New Zealand. In other words, says the "Southland Times," this force will be a local navy. To please the New Zealand Government, the Imperial authorities have accepted the offer of a Dreadnought, but they have at once undertaken to spend a very large sum of money on a fleet of cruisers, destroyers, and submarines, whose particular duty will be the defence of New Zealand. The position, when understood, is an exceedingly satisfactory one, and it will enable New Zealand to take her proper position in the comprehensive scheme for the defence cf the Empire which has been'arranged.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9583, 1 September 1909, Page 4
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158COLONIAL NAVAL DEFENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9583, 1 September 1909, Page 4
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