THE OVERSEAS CLUB.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10713, 5 September 1912, Page 4

THE OVERSEAS CLUB.

-The formation in .Masterton of. a branch of the "Overseas Club" is at once an indication that the town appreciates the honour of being a pu - t of that great Empire whose flag stands for freedom, justice and good government. The objects of the Club are, briefly, to draw together iii the bowels of comradeship the peoples now Jiving under the folds of the -British flag, to urge on every able-bodied man the necessity of being able to bear arms, and to insist on the vijial 'necessity to the Empire of British supremacy on the sea. With these objects every true Brit:<']ior should 'be in sympathy, and the formation of an Empire Club on tlir.se lines is t distinct advance iju Imperial solidarity. It has been suggested that because the movement was instituted by the Daily Mail, a strong partizan -newspaper, it possesses some political significance. Tills suggestion is at once jibsurd. v-. The fact that . the organisation, is being supported by iall shades of public opinion in the overseas possessions—possessions which have no direct influence on. British party politics—immediately removes the suspicion of any political motive. The fact also that Lord Islington, the Grand President of the Club in Xew Zealand, war.' identified-in, Home polities with a party which has no .sympathy with the Daily' Mail, should dispel any idea the movement is of a political character.