The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1932. OTTAWA.
I ThP stage is now being set for the Ottawa Conference, and the various delegations aie preparing to leave to take part i)i the deliberations, of what promises to be an epoch making gat- | Bering. T lie work to be done at- the conference will have a strong effect in connection with the foundations of an Empire wide policy, which will be •enlarged later as the succe&s of the movement makes necessary. For years past there has been an effort made on behalf of the Dominions to secure Im- | peri nl preferences, and New Zealand I hate always done its part in this respect. . Now there is the demand for a wider ' scope for the movement, with the / recognition rapidly coming of the [necessity of each part of the Empire I to do- its duty by giving its assistance in every possible way to the call of Empire Unity. In 1894 -a conference I of «• similar nature was held at Ottawa, but- there was considerable disappointment after that gathering, owing to Great Britain failing *to take the broad outline of policy that then was hoped for. Just before the conference, there had been -a bitter election in Canada, one faction urging a commercial union with the United States. That faction was defeated- and the new Government, realising, the danger with which the Dominion had been faced, evolved the principle of Imperial preference. That principle has grown in every part of the Empire of late years, and in New Zealand its value had been fully recognised, tills Dominion giving every possible assistance to the movement recognising •the urgent' need for inter-trade to I keep the Empire in a flourishing condition. If a national policy can be I outlined at Ottawa to consolidate the British Empire and strengthen those \ invisible bonds that hold it together, , then the conference will be a most 1 successful one, worthy of the big effort being made. The task is a difficult one, hut if it is successful, it | will be all the more gratifying. New Zealand will be in a favourable posiI tiou at the conference. Her export 1 production per head is twice that of any other country in the Empire and she lias helped England in every possible way, doing her best in return for the open market so freely given by Britain. There are about six hundred million*! spent in importing food proj duets into England each yew, and if the eunfercttde thereof being procured from the, dependencies of the Empire than is at present tlve case, then there will he ample reward for the effort made, which will assist in bringing the Empire a-s a whole still closer together.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1932, Page 4
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465The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1932. OTTAWA. Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1932, Page 4
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