FAR OFF NEW ZEALAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1921, Page 2

FAR OFF NEW ZEALAND.

BRITISH VIEW OF IMPERIAL CONTROL. An interesting as well as a significant feature of the “Jubilee Bazaar,” which is being held in London in aid of Dr. Barn ado’s Homes is the large stall containing a great variety of articles supplied by the generosity of New Zealand, and under the special charge of Lady Allen, wjfe of the High Commissioner. We do not seem to hear very much about New Zealand now that the war is over (says an English exchange). Few people realise how actively concerned are the people of this distant Dominion, so genuinely British in blood and sentiment, in every phase of life, social jgpd political, in Great Britain, or how quickly their sympathies are aroused in any good purpose affecting the home *of the Empire that they are asked to serve. Gne cannot help thinking that if the British public appreciated more justly Che close attention with which the course of home affairs is followed in all parts of the Empire. and jhe anxiety shown to discover our motives of action, there would be a heightened sense of responsibility on the part both of politicians and the Press towards domestic problems as well as those which concern our brethren overseas. It is good sometimes, when occasion offers, to call attention to considerations such as. these, for the strength and durability of the Empire must depend on the oneness of its outlook, and on the extent to which the centre in its practical ideals can retain the confidence and active support of the outlying parts. That is Imperial control reduced to its simplest terms.