FEDERAL CONSTITUTION TO THE EMPIRE.
"THE FIRST GREAT STEP."
SPEECH BY MR KIDSTON
Received July 29, 9 a.m. LONDON, July 28.
The Premier of Queensland, Mr Kidston, was the guest of the Corporation of Glasgow at luncheon. In a speech he appealed for emigrants of the old stock —self-reliant people who would be able to hold a new country as their forefathers had defended the old land. He was pleased, he said, that the Motherland was looking to her children for help. She did not want Australia to go for engines or machinery to Germany, but, he asked, where did the Motherland get her butter? They talked about the Imperial Parliament, but there was no Imperial Parlia* ment. How could a great Empire be placed on a healthy, permanent footing with a local Parliament at Westminster not representing portions outside Britain? He trusted that British statesmen and people would take the first great step in the direction of giving a Federal Constitution to the Empire.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9154, 30 July 1908, Page 5
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165FEDERAL CONSTITUTION TO THE EMPIRE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9154, 30 July 1908, Page 5
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