EMPIRE TRADE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 February 1913, Page 5

EMPIRE TRADE

CHAIRMAN OF COMMISSION IN AUSTRALIA. AN EMPIRE ELEVEN. (Received Last Night, 9.40 o'clock.) MELBOURNE, February 17. At the welcome in the Town Hail to Sir Edgar Vincent, Chairman of the Empire Trade Commission, the Hon. W. M. Hughes. Commonwealth Attorney-General, said: "The people of tho Empire have been pottering about like children, or savages, in the dark. We /should realise that we have a relation to one another. Our loyalty can only be useful if it is constant and continuous, and, in short, a factor. We in Australia, have h<--en doing little more than scratching about with anaemic hands." Sir Edgar Vincent -said the Commission marked, a definite enoeh in Tmnerial development. "1> was the first flying squadron attached to the mighty fleet of an Imperial Conference. The mission was to visit the territory of all autonomous Governments, consult with authorities on trade and commerce reoresentative of the dominions, and lay the facts before the next Imperial" Conference. There had been All England Elevens and All Australian Elevens, but, for the first time now they would, have an Empire Eleven. "We are here," he said, "to co-operate with you. We desire to increase, in an especial degree, interImperial trade."