IMPERIAL FEDERATION (DEFENCE) COMMITTEE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 202, 27 June 1903, Page 2

IMPERIAL FEDERATION (DEFENCE) COMMITTEE.

j; TrJErt<ght Ho.', the Premier h»s rjjceived the f illowiog le.ter:— n 11a Pritces-S%, Wetminfter, S.W , I. 14 h May, 1903. „ Sir, Ti:e Imperial BVderatio V(De- ,. fence) Ocramittee has observed with much sitisfdo ion the adm'rable speech d d.livertd by you in March las*, in which you point d out to your coun'rymen t wihtbatoom v .initiouof patriotism at d po'i'.ical foresight that hss always ch racte ised your u terarces, tha' tha burden of Impjii.l nspansibilit'es at k- present resting up in the Mother Ocuatiy was beo >miug very heavy, and that as th l ) dingers to the comm«rce, trade, and manufac urea of the Empire in it would beoorre all the great'r. 3 " I'he Ootnmtt'e* joiDS with you in the : " regret which you then expressed thit a 0 widtr publication of the report of the [ e Conference if Premiers his n>t been ir earned out by the Government of the Empire, and it has instructed me to d forward to you 250 copies o' its pimphlet No. 19, containiog extracts 0 fiom those speeches mtde at tbe Con--16 ference which tend to omphasise the 3 " fact to which you so widely and pitri--0 otically cill attention. e My Committee trusts '.ha l ! you may n be abl*, by the distribution of these :t papers in New Zea'and, to spread that •1 knowledge of tbe nesds of the Empire —for the due mam'eDacea of its dignity and for the security of its p3ople and their interests—which you hive endeavoured to b iog hom3 to your hearers in all parts of the Empire. My Committee a's) hop s tint the;e publications miy serve to sh>w th? people of Naw Zeiland how earnest is , the dosire of both tbe people and tha rulers of the United Kingdom to s care y their aotutl co-op9ration in tha work of ], maintiiuicg and administering the Empire to which they all belong.—l >f am, Si- - , yours faithfully, )t Ahthur H. Loring, o Hon. Secretary.