NEW ZEALAND FROM WITHIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 99, 3 May 1913, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND FROM WITHIN.

MR J. ALLEN’S TOUR

[By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 10.20 a.m.) London, May 3.

Mr Allen, in the course of his speech, explained New Zealand’s military system, which promised to include every man capable of bearing arms. Labour legislation in New Zealand on the whole realised the expectation formed of it. At the outset, compulsory arbitration suppressed sweating, but it had not made the workers more efficient. New Zealand felt the need of Imperial defence more forcibly than any other Dominion. To-day’s conditions would not last long if a solution of the problem of participation in a common scheme of Empire defence was to be Imperial conferences. The greatest good would bo desirable if. the conference became Councils of Empire. “New Zealand,” said Mr Allen, “cannot remain satisfied with participation in a conference or in an organisation without any executive functions. We look to the Canadian statesmen to give us a lead, and New Zealand looked to Britain to maintain a battle fleet in the North Sea. Protection of the Pacific ought to be the duty of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Therein New Zealand again looked to Canada to lead.”

Mr Allen invited Canadian statesmen to tour New Zealand.