LORD BYNG ON CANADA.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5070, 31 December 1926, Page 4

LORD BYNG ON CANADA.

LOYALTY NOT IN DOUBT. WOMAN’S WORK IN SETTLEMENT. When Lord Byng of Vimy, the retir.ed Governor-General o’f Canada, arrived at Southampton in the Canadian, Pacific liner Empress of France he spoke about the Dominion with the affection of a man for a very dear friend. As to the talk .about a weakening of the ties between Canada and the Home Country, Lord Byng said : — “There are extremists in Canada just as there, are eveiywhere else — and, like the others, they talk wildly. “Thqre meed be no feeling o'f doubt in regard to Canada’s attitude towards the Motherland ; its love has not changed, and it is as great as it has ever been. “In regard to the idea o'f aj union between the United States and Canada some Americans may be optimistic, but nobody else is.” He attributed the defeat of the Con - servatives in the recent Canadian elections to the fact that the Liberals promised a reduction of taxation. THE LAND STILL CALLS. Lord Byng predicted a, marvellous ‘future for, Canada. ■ “At the present time it is the land that still calls there. And it Is oh the land that hard-working men can win success to-day. There is l no room for more artisans or other city workers. “Agriculture must come, before anything else., and it has to be realised that villages and towns cannot exist without production on the land. The chance for the artisan and professional man will come: jvhen the call of .the land has been answered.” Lord Byng added that he had the greatest faith in what in Canada; is called the “teens system”—the training o’f boys and girls between the ages of 14 and 17 on Canadian farms so that they grow up naturally into, Canadian agriculturists. Lady Byng spoke admiringly of the work done in Canada by the wives Of settlers : — “If a woman is prepared to work well she will ‘make, good’ in Canada. Women are the pivot of the work o’f settlement there, and so long as they are happy there is nothing to keep success.”