CABLE NEWS.
sides continuing the old annual subvention of £IOO,OOO, New Zealand will present- the Empire with a battleship. Sir Joseph Ward would have preferred a Dreadnought, and amongst the more or less inspired paragraphs that have been circulated -respecting the doings of thi s secret conference, one was issued after the last sitting, which distinctly Asserted, that Sir Joseph Ward had adhered to his Dreadnought offer to the last. A : : tatement, which'ought to be correct, makes known that New Zealand’s donation, ove'ir and above tho annual subvention, which -was £IOO,OOO, will be a large armored' cruiser of the Indomitable class, sometimes described as Dreadnought cruisers. This ship will he attached to the China unit of the Pacific fleet, and become its flagship and flagship cf the East Indian and Australian units—in fact, of all units of the Pacific fleets whenever they a,re together. .As the China unit will not often be seen in New Zealand waters it was arranged that some of the smaller vessels of the China unit, small cruisers, and submarines, shall have their headquarters in a New Zealand port.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2616, 25 September 1909, Page 5
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183CABLE NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2616, 25 September 1909, Page 5
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