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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 6

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ME. MASSEY ON WHAT NEW ZEALAND NEEDS.

"New Zealand needs increased pub. licity abroad," said the Prime Minister at the New Zealand Club luncheon yesterday. "Our soldiers have done much, for us in this respect. The fame they have won has been a groat advertisement for New Zealand. But the average Briton does not know c-nough about our Dominion."

Mr. Massey proceeded to mention that when the members of the New Zealand Press delegation were, being welcomed by British Pressmen, he hml taken the opportunity to suggest that representatives of British journalism should visit New Zealand. He had premised them a ready welcome, a good time, and an. opportunity to learn (something of the productions and resources of New Zealand. Lord Burnlmm, speaking on behalf of the British journalists, had accepted the invitation, and had stated that he would arrange for the visit after the war. "The more the British people know about our country, the better it will be for us," said Mr. Massey. The Prime Minister added that he had been very glad to learn that the Prince of Wales was going , to make a tour of the Empire after the close of the wnr. New Zealand would have a very hearty welcome for the man who, in the ordinary course of events, would some day occupy the British i.hrone. "The Prince of Wales will come to us in days of peace," said Mr. Massey, "and I hope that he will be accompanied by a squadron of modern warships, some of those great fighting ships, battleships or battle-cruisers, which during the last four years havo been guarding our Empire in the North Sea. And I would add, as my personal suggestion, thai I would like to see these warships bring to our shores-representatives of the regiments that have fought beside.our own men in the war—representatives of the men who fought at Gallyioli, at MonS and the Marne, at Jerusalem and Bagdad. I believe that a visit of" the kind I am ?u2i>esting, by representatives of all the fighting forces of the Empire, would help greatly to stimulate national sentiment. Thfi might of Britain will.need no illustration after the present war. But the visit would draw closer the ties of kinship!"