NEW ZEALAND’S POSITION.
No doubt there may, here and there be a New Zealander whose pulses will quicken and whose blood will with naval ardor at the thought that far awav in the Yellow Sea, or m the -dockyard of Hongkong, there is a cruiser which we bought on the time-pay-ment system. But such patriots will not be numerous enough to man a submarine. As we have said, we sia have to adopt a progressive nava.l policy before long, and we shall be handicapped to the extent of the annua! payment for the cruiser, which is a thing altogether apart from and outside the policy that is to come. It is the that the real weakness of the Prime Minister’s impulsiveness ox a tew months ago will become apparent, and then the S public will realise that the “moral effect” of the famous Dreadnought offer was purchased at too High a price.—“ The Dominion.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2607, 15 September 1909, Page 7
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154NEW ZEALAND’S POSITION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2607, 15 September 1909, Page 7
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