EMPIRE EXHIBITION

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 17, 14 October 1921, Page 7

EMPIRE EXHIBITION

PRINCE OF WALES APPEALS FOR GUARANTEES TO PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, October 12. The Prince of Wales had an enthusiastic reception at the Mansion House, where a meeting was held in connection with the British Empre Exhibition. This was tho last appearance of the Prince in the city prior to Ills departure on bis Eastern tour. Alluding to his previous tours, he said that his overseas experiences were very fresh in his memory. He had learned everything there from personal interviews, and from none more than from Mr. Storey. "I mourn with New South Wales the loss of her Premier. In him the Empire has lost a very big man and very good servant. I, personally, have lost a very good friend, whom I valued very much." The Prince said he had been greatly struck by the unanimity with which the Dominion Premiers had welcomed this great Imperial project. He shared the vein of optimism which ran through their speeches last July, and also their undercurrent of anxiety that we in this country should be fully alive to what Mr. Chamberlain once called "our vast undeveloped estates.” “What we want to do,’’ said the Prince, “is to teach the people that the Empire which was worth dying for is worth living for and working for.” His Highness referred feelingly to the ■ question of unemployment, and offered the practical suggestion that work on ’ this exhibition should be commenced im- ( mediately, thus giving immediate em- . ployment to thousands who had already | served the country well. 1 He concluded by appealing to the banking, commercial, and industrial interests, to guarantee a million, which could be ; used in constructional work on tho ex- i hibition. The Dominions were already I doing their part.,, and it would be a ’ •sscrv thing if we here could not do our , share. ■ Nothing would send him on his ■ way rejoicing more than the knowledge . that this problem of guarantees was ■ being tackled before he left. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.