IMPRESSIONS OF EMPIRE TOUR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1911, 20 November 1913, Page 7

IMPRESSIONS OF EMPIRE TOUR.

——— *—rr~.. , LORD EMMOTTINTERVIEWED. By Telcsraah—Press Association—Copyright . London, November 18. Lord Emmottj Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and chairman of , the British Parliamentary Party' which visited the Overseas' jDciminions, interviewed on his return to London, spoke of the intense pleasure tho Dominions had evinced in the visit of the party. The prosperity of all tho Dominions was manifest. Conditions in ,-Australia were very favourable. •-.. He had been greatly impressed by Australia's climate arid sceuory. '' '," ■ Mr. Lough, M.P., said he had been '. struck by tho Dominions' extraordinary prosperity and high.state of development; thoy could in many things give the Motherland a long start, particularly in agriculture, which was conducted on a much more scientific basis. ! "Times" —Sydney "Sub" Special Cables. (Red. November 19, 6.40 p.m.) London, November 19. * "The people of the Dominions," said ! ILord Emmott, speaking for the members of the Parliamentary. Party, "have a strong feeling, whether justified or not, • that people at Homo are ignorant about them, confuse one Dominion with' another, and that wo don't understand their problems, which, of course, • are . different in every Dominion. They are only too delighted to talk', to us about their affairs."