UNITY OF EMPIRE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 25 July 1929, Page 5

UNITY OF EMPIRE

ADDRESS BY MR BALDWIN (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) .'Australian jfress Association.—United Service.) VANCOUVER, 23rd July. The British Empire represents an effort to unite for a common purpose the races, which are scattered all over the world, whose people are of different creed, colour, and traditions, said Mr Bavin, Premier of New South Wales, when addressing the Canadian Club on Tuesday evening. "It is an effort to combine two apparently contradictory ideas—the idea of perfect individual liberty united to,a single Empire purpose for the good of the Empire and tho world. We who compose the nations of the Empire can Jive a fuller and more effective life as members of ,the Empire than we could if out of it. A problem common to the nations of the Empire was the necessity for a more eflicient defence system with a more equitable division of the cost." The formulation of a real and effective Empire policy was one of tho great needs, and to promote the, formulation of such policy Mr Bavin suggested more frequent and effective consultations between representatives of different parts of the Empire.