OVERSEA BRITONS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1744, 8 May 1913, Page 5

OVERSEA BRITONS.

THEIR PLACE IN THE IMPERIAL BOAT,

BOWERS, NOT PASSENGERS.

By Telesraph—Press Association—CopjrriEht London, May G. A crowded meeting of tho Victoria League was held. at tho Guildhall. Captain Collins (representing Sir George Eeid), the Agents-General, Lord and Lady Sydenham, the, Anglican Arcffbishop of Sydney, and Ladies Talbot, Betty Balfour, and Eayleigh.were among those present.

The president, tho Countess of Jersey, outlined the league's work, particularly referring to; tho Bureau of Information work in introducing immigration to the Overseas branches of the league.

. Earl' Grey said the growing self-respect of Overseas Britons was making it impossible for them to remain passengers, instead of Towers in tho Imperial 1 boat; hence some form of organic union was pecessary. , ..

Mr. Watt, Premier of Victoria, in a stirring address, eulogised the work of the associated bodies of tho Victoria League in Australia, which wa? stimulat- . ing and cementing tho spirit of Empire, 'by such work .as correspondence-between, children, th!e,'.- reception ,';of oyerseasj visitors, tho exchango of flags between schools, and the fostering of sentiment, which Was one'of the strongest buttresses for the future of tho Empire.