THE IMPERIAL NOTE IN BUSINESS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1927, Page 4

THE IMPERIAL NOTE IN BUSINESS.

“! view with grai c- apprehension the tendency developing, among the various units of the Empire, apparently largo in thentseles, but even small when regarded in the light <>l tho economic units I have outlined, in not acting as. a-unified body, hut separated in an attempt lor each to develop without any regard to the whole. Local patriotisms, local politics, local self-inteiT.sl.s, assisted by the wide distances which soperate, unfortunately, different part of our- wide-flung Empire, all liavo a, tendency in this direction, which, if not corrected in time, may cu.mm us to lose a groat .structure of sell-governing- hrotherhood, whose common existence is ol •iiiiinito import:!,mr to the. future ctm■tiouaiuo of the Anglo-Saxon nice. and. ;<;f the graves!’ import to li'e ili-v.-lo;-,incut'ol all thin seems best, in our mndor:i ■’ r. 1 1a-;at Oil:. Piu.vcrfal as sentii.ioiit ;j> on a race and language, without a io!-so ci anomic nexus, tho creat ion ol a ioi.il> no.' of .v’aa;.mlinn rather than Inf uniiieation is apt to grow in the ;development of each part.— From a .spoooli to members ol tho House oi • Commons by Sir Alfred Mosul, M.P.. explaining his proposals for t he lorinii- - ion of an Imperial Trade (•'ummissinu.