OUTPOSTS OF EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1920, Page 5

OUTPOSTS OF EMPIRE.

BRITISH LEADERS SHOULD VISIT DOMINION. "I am very glad the Prince of Wales is coming to this country," said Mr. Massey at the meeting, of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, "and I hope hij will get a worthy reception. I have no' doubt on that point. It would be better for this country, and for the Empire, if the statesmen of Great Britain would visit the outlying. parts "of the Empire." Mr. Massey said it was, not possible for those statesmen to know all about this svnd other parts of the Empire if they did not come out here and see the places. One might as well say that a man shut up on Somes Island or Rangitoto all his life knew everytlung about New Zealand. If the statesmen of Britain had had a habit of visiting the outlying parts ot the Empire before the war, certain mistakes would not haye been made. He was glad they hart a much more intimate knowledge of the Dominions now than they had before the war, and this was due largely to the sending of troops Home in the time of the Empire's trial. English statesmen now understood the importance and the possibilities of the Dominions. . • Besides t.ie Prince of Wales, the 'Empire Press Conference was coming here, and he would like to see some of the British Cabine*, also, come ou'. The Em-' pire would go on quite well even if men 1 ike Mr. Lloyd George, Lord t'u.'zon, Lord Milner, and so on were to come out here for a while. Ho hoped this would"be impressed on members of the British Press when they came along.