THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Future or .Empire, “On tile twin pillars of British settlement and British trade rests the future of the Umpire. So . 18 Empire-building the picturesque thing of the past. Gone are the spacious davs of Raleigh and of Drake, the mighty deeds of Clive a»d of Yet the pioneer and the backwoodsman have blazed a trail which we of the more materialistic age must follow in a more materialistic manner. No one pretends that the Empire of to-day is the Empire of a hundred years, of fifty years, even of twenty years ago. Tt is 'a new Empire, a different Empire—and a greater Empire. By preserving its alliances, by developing its resources and above all, by cultivating that mutual understanding of which is horn mutual confidence and mutual affection -so we shall keep it a Commonwealth that for long will stand four-square to all the world.”-Txnd Northcliffe.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1922, Page 2
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150THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1922, Page 2
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