DOMINIONS' HOUSE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 215, 11 March 1914, Page 3

DOMINIONS' HOUSE.

SIR JOSEPH WARD'S APPROVAL, j By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Tuesday. Sir Joseph Ward, interviewed, expressed himself strong in favor of Earl Grey's scheme for the establishment of a Dominion House in London. He said that a visitor, seeing the present scattered offices of the various overseas dominions, cannot be so impressed by the greatness of the British Empire and its marvellous resources as he would if the representatives and samples of the products were housed in one great central building where the public could not help seeing them. Sir Joseph believed the scheme would pay the dominions well to secure the advantages accruing from the position afforded by this building. Tho practical combination of the different sections of the Empire would be advnn- ■ tageous to all and contribute to an increase of the export trade of each dominion. EARL GREY'S VIEWS. During the course of an interview ut Wellington .the other day. Earl Grey was asked to state the latest developments in regard to his Dominions House .proposal, with which his name has hecome inseparably associated, and whereby the representatives of all the oversea dominions in London would be housed under one roof on a sito between Aldwych and the Strand. i "I do not think that there ever lias heen or ever will be so good an opportunity of advertising the self-governing dominions as there is at present," he said. "If the dominions will be advised they will make use of their opportunity of appropriating for their use a site which may not be available for long. In regard to this matter, I am most grateful for the support given to the proposal by the Xew Zealand press, for no press in any other country bus written with greater appreciation of the scheme. When you retleet that single firms spend £30,000 per annum in advertising, a guarantee of £ 100,000 should not, be beyond the self-governing dominions, with a view to establishing in the heart of London a block of buildings that would impress not only England, but tho whole world with the strength of the Imperial dominions." | I -' t