CHAP. II] IMPERIAL CO-OPERATION 1483
Britain with Canada, and through Canada with Australia
and New Zealand!
In 1909 the first subsidiary Conference under the resolution
of the Conference of 1907 was held to deal with the question
of military and naval defence. The conclusions resulted in
the decision of Australia and Canada to establish auxiliary
fHeets, and of New Zealand to contribute a cruiser, besides
a subsidy of £100,000 a year to a squadron of the new Pacific
fleet, to be composed of three units, one in Indian waters,
one in New Zealand and China seas, and one in Australian
waters 2

' Naturalization was more successfully discussed at the Imperial Conference
 of 1911, and the ¢ All-Red Route ’ scheme has so far not eventuated
in any practical result ; see Jebb, op. cit., il. 339-64; below, chap. iii, § 4.
¥ See Part V, chap. x; Parl. Pap., Cd. 5135, pp. 3, 4; 5582, p. 18.