AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2369, 27 January 1915, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER.

W IMPRESSIVE SPEECH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Dunedin, January 26. A feature of the cordial civic reception to the Australian Primo Minister to-iay Ivas the emphasis laid upon the necessity of commercial and social inVexeommnnjcation botiycen tho Commonwealth and the Dominion. Mr. Fisher deeply impressed the great attendance with his lofty now of tho oversea aspects of Imperialism. He considered it a miracle that, despite the greatest war in history, the Empire's great possessions overseas had been practically MivtoTictei Viy l\io Tavag.es of tho war. From this he drew a stirring lesson of the need of both Australia and New Zealand realising their opportunities and responsibilities, and of doing more in tho same spirit as that which had aroused their forefathers to labour and succeed. It was not only necessary to dofend their resourceful island home, but to spare something from their great capacities to help the Mother Country. If the day ever came when from out of this tremendous war sprang an international system of adjusting international disputes without the necessity of disastrous strife, the cost of tho war would be worth it all. It had been said that Britain had been tyrannising all over the world. This he declared emphatically was a lie; those who urged it knew they lied.