EMPIRE UNITY.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 June 1918, Page 5

EMPIRE UNITY.

LESSNS OF THE PAST. ' LONDON, June 20. At the Colonial Institute luncheon,' Mr C. G. Wade (Agent-General for New South Wales), responding' to, the toast of his health, said he'hoped the old system which found us prepared to buy in the cheapest market and go ahead in blind confidence in our neighbours was over. We must make better use of our resources in the future than we had done in the past. He referred to the great mineral resources of Australia, and said no one could predict what the wheat output would be through the application'of science and energy. The ignorance about the Dominions in some quarters was lamentable. The Secretary for the Colonies, while anxious to foster closer sympathy with the coloniee, was working with obsolete machinery. . ,The very name of the Colonial Office was "out of date. It was necessary to have the Dominion's office staffed by men who had served an apprenticeship overseas, who had studied the operations of liberal institutions, and understoqd the workings of democratic minds. If new life were breathed into the dry bones of officialdom, much might be accomplished to bring the Empire into closer unity.

Sir Char lesLueas said it would have been bcter if Australia had been peopled by British stock, and not by so any from southern Europe. So long as Britain and America eintrolled the sea Germany would never become dominant.