SCOTIA AND EMPIRE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 542, 24 June 1909, Page 7

SCOTIA AND EMPIRE.

PRESSMEN AT GLASGOW. AUSTRALIA'S CLYDE-BUILT NAVY. MUNICIPAL REFORMS. ' (By .Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) ' (Rco. Juno 23, 10.10 p.m.) " i i London, June 23. Speakmg ai the banquet given by flie Glasgow Corporation to tho delegates ,ti> 1 tho Imperial Press Conference, tho Hon. C. E. Dairies (Hobart) said that tho proofs of Britain's resources, . 'as'' soon ' n Wvos of industry \ outside London, were a great object-lesson to the delegates. The sight of; tho nucleus of tho Commonwealth Navy upon tho stocks at Fairfield on the Clydo had suggested tho hope 'that the Australian'. .Fleet would, eventually become of. great assistance to. tho Motherland. Tho Hon. T. Fink (Melbourne) said that the citizens of tho : overseas dominion's cherished, far abovo. wealth, the "qualities, and sense of government which they had inherited from Britain. To Australians Glasgow was more'than the'commercial capital of Scotland; it was a model in many respects of local government, a' placo where .the sense of Imperial citizenship had fructified and was -strengthened by ; a 'daily adherence to sound principles of • municipal government..-. Glasgow's ■ institutions were' spreading and were being '. intimated overseas. '•