CEMENT OF EMPIRE
MUTUAL TRADE
SIR J. PARR ON OTTAWA
CONFERENCE
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
MASTEKTON, 4th February.
The Ottawa Conference was the event of the year for New Zealand, said Sir James Parr, Leader of the Legislative Council, in an address here to-day. He expressed his confidence that the Conference would serve the intended purpose of promoting great ex? tension and expansion of inter-Imperial trade, and urged the paramount importance of adequate preparation for effective representation of this country at the great Imperial gathering. There were cracks in the Imperial structure, said Sir James, and cement was needed to close and bind these cracks. He suggested that the only cement' that would hold the structure of Empire together was that of mutually profitable trade between all parts of the Empire. The Ottawa Conference would decide whether we were to mix this cement of Empire, and whether our race was to take up in the right spirit this great heritage of onefourth of the GWis. The opening of the Ottawa Conference would be a redletter day for New Zealand and the Empire.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1932, Page 11
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181CEMENT OF EMPIRE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1932, Page 11
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