OVERSEAS PEOPLES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16750, 4 January 1915, Page 6

OVERSEAS PEOPLES.

NO LONGER CHILDREN. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services, LONDON, January 1

"The Times," in a leading article commenting on the remarkable coincidence of Mr Andrew Fisher and Sir R. L. Borden simultaneously discussing the future position of tho dominions, says:—"lt is an excellent thing thus to let us into the inner minds of the dominions' peoples. Hie war has shown us that in tho overseas peoples of the Empire we have no longer children who depend on us for their support, but grown men and women ready and anxious to do their share of the common task. " Many of us have been content to take what young nations the Empire has thrust into our hands, never giving thought to the meaning of such gifts. Now they remind us with admirable courtesy and deference, but still firmly and clearly, that this is not the thing to do. We now faco the problems involved by tho adolescence of the dominions' peoples, which we have put off long enough. These problems are not insoluble, but difficult beyond precedent."