EMPIRE DAY
THE OVERSEAS DOMINIONS. A SHARE IN RESPONSIBILITY. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received 19, 5.20 p.m. London, May 19. At the Colonial Institute Empire Day dinner Earl Grey presided. There were three hundred guests, including Sir W. Hall-Jones and the Agents-General. Dr. G. R. Parkin, proposing the toast of '"The Overseas Dominions," said that he believed that the. people on the outskirts of the Empire would respond to Mr. Winston Churchill's appeal to patrol the distant seas.
'Earl Grey said that besides desiring to teach the Motherland the resources of the overseas Dominions, the Institute might teach the overseas Dominions the greatness of the Motherland and prove the fact that Great Britain was not yet played out. He knew of thousands in Canada who envied the Motherland's privilege of .bearing the burden of Empire, and were counting on a day when they would be able to claim a share in it.
Sir A. Lawley, replying to the toast, asked: Are the people of Great Britain to bear the whole of the burden of the navy, or are they to share it with their overseas brethren? On the happy solution of this problem depended the future welfare and existence of the Empire.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 277, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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202EMPIRE DAY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 277, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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