GREAT DESTINY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 75, 9 January 1928, Page 5

GREAT DESTINY.

FUTURE OF THE EMPIRE. YOUNGEST AND MOST POTENT. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) VANCOUVER, January 7. "The,British Empire is the youngest thing in the world, and the most potent, and it stands at the dawn of a great new destiny,” declared Mr U. S. Amery, addressing the Canadian Club at Victoria to-day. He said that while the last Imperial Conference formally accorded all nations in the Empire a place of absolute equality one with another, the future greatness of the Empire would' not lie along' lines of separate development. Mr Amery declared that a future much, greater than the past must be built up on lines of complete co-operation both in business and in spirit. "We shall develop our methods of co-operation as vye go along,” he predicted. He marvelled at Canada’s ■economic growth, and declared that the prosperity of the United States, was due to the policy of economic unity. If the same spirit -of co-operation were evinced in the Empire, there was no reason why it could not "match and more than match that of our great neighbour.” Discussing the Canadian-Australian, Trade Pact, Mr Amery predicted that preference would be granted to Australian dried fruit, and would work beneficially to both countries.

"I do feel, however, that the success of the treaty will be greater if. as far as possible, Canada purchased dried fruits from Australia- instead pT California, and Australia purchased Canadian lumber rather than United States,” he added. Mr Amerv proposes to consult the various provincial Governments in Canada in regard to an assisted family rnmigration scheme. He stressed he noint that it was very necessary for Ministers of the various Empire Governments to visit other sections of die Empire, and so gain a knowledge of conditions first hand.