Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 71, 29 February 1916, Page 3

Great Britain

MINERS’ FRATERNAL GREETINGS FROM WALES TO AUSTRALIA. [United Pukhs Amooiation.] (Received B.do a.m.) London. February 28. Mr W. Brace, Under-Secretary for Home Affairs, addressed fifteen thousand miners at Merthyr Tydfil. Ibe meeting accepted Mr Brace’s suggestion to send fraternal greetings to the Australian Miners’ Association, and tell them that the Welsh colliers will do all that is possible and co-operate with them so as to help to win the war. The colliers, generally, express the highest appreciation of what the Australians have done. RESOURCES OF EMPIRE. London, February 2d. Presiding at a lecture at the London School of Economics on “The Agricultural Resources of the Empire,” Mr Bonar Law said: “We should all like to see the Dominions peopled by our- kindred, but T, for one, would be sorry to see the best and most vigorous of our people leave these shores even to people the Dominions.” He long bad cherished an ideal whereby intercourse between all parts ol the Empire might be made easier, and whereby a standard of living,'approximating to the best could be obtained for the whole.