EMPIRE DAY
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COLONIAL INSTITUTE DJNNER THE BURDENS OF EMPIRE. (Received Last Night, 0.0 o'clock. LONDON, May 18. At the Colonial Institute "Empire Kliy dinner, over whk'h Earl Grey presided, there were 300 guests, including Sir William Hall-Jones (High Commissioner for New Zealand), and the Agents-General. Dr G. R. Parkin, in proposing "The Overseas Dominions," said he believed the people on the outskirts of the Empire would.reopond to Mr Winston Churchill's appeal far a patrol of the distant seas.
Earl Grey said that, besides desiring to teach the Motherland the rej sources of the' Overseas Dominions, the Institute might teach the Overseas Dominions the greatness of the Motherland and prove that the spirit of Britain vms not played out. He knew there were thousands in Canada wiho envied Mother Ireland's privilege of bearing their portion of the burden of Empire, and also were counting upon the day when they would be able to claim their share of tihe burden.
Sir A. Law-ley, replying to the Overseas toast., asked were the people o!f Britain to bear the whole burden of the Navy, or were they to share it wa'tih their overseas brethren? On the happy solution' of Wks problem depended the future welfare and existence of the Etmpire.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10640, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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