EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1921, Page 8

EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT.

CLAIMS OF CROWN COLONIES. NEGLECTED TRADE OUTLET. London, Oct. 2. “The development of Crown colonies is one of the factors which ought to be used in solving the problem of the tempcrary collapse of markets,” declared Mr Winston Churchill (Secretary of State for the Colonies) in an address given at the Gold Coast Civil Service dinner. “The time has now come when Crown colonies which have attained adult status should press forward their economic and mechanical developments,” he added. Mr Winston Churchill deplored Parliament’s neglect of these great possessions, and suggested that something might be done to relieve the present lack of enterprise and initiative in the business and industrial world by placing orders for locomotives, rails and all apparatus needed in order to -raise these fertile countries, with their active populations and immense natural resources, on a scientific basis. The Times, in a leading article, supports Mr AVinston Churchill’s views on developing the vast resources of the Crown colonies, the potentialities of which are not realised sufficiently in England. The Times trusts that. British merchants will take Mr. Winston Churchill’s advice, and find in the development of the colonies a means of profit to themselves, to the community at. large, and to the colonies to which their enterprise may be directed.