IMPERIAL DEFENCE.
AUSTRALIA AM) NEW ZEALAND. (Received Last Night, 10 o'clock.) LONDON". April 22. In tlic Hou.se ol' Commons, Mr B. L. Outhwaite, Liberal member for Hanley, asked whether the Admiralty were aware of the endeavours to make the Australian Government, induce New Zealand to co-operate in the formation of a local navy, when the Admiralty requested New Zealand to allow the buttle cruiser New Zealand to be added to the first driver ron, and also whether it is the Admiralty's policy to isolate th" Commonwealth in its endoiivoiir.s "to safeguard the Imperial interests in the Pacific. The Right Hon. Winston Churchill replied in. the negative. Both questions, he said, had had the advantage of long discussion. The Hon. Jas. Allen, New Zealand Minister of Defence, was fully advised of the situation in Australasia.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 5
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134IMPERIAL DEFENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 23 April 1913, Page 5
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