DOMINIONS' STATUS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 7

DOMINIONS' STATUS.

OPINIONS WELCOMED. THE ONLY REAL LEAGUE. MIGRANTS AND THE FLAG. (By Cable.—Press Awoeiatlon.—ConyrlirDt.) LONDOX, May 10. The keynote of the speeches at the Royal Colonial Jnatitute's annual dinner at the Hotel Victoria marked the unity of the Empire. Sir Godfrey Lagden, one of the vi.-c"presidents, oei-upied the ihair. j There were 25U guests, including the ] Ao-ents General arid Sir Joseph Cook. I Messages were read from branches in | Australia. Canada, and South Africa. Sir Robert Home proposed the toast { of the "I'nited Kmpire." He said the • change whereby the Dominions liad been] piven a voice in questions of policy | illustrated the progress of the Kmpire | in ronseqiKiiiee of the war. The Dominion* had been given a new status Britain I welcomed the opinions of the Dominions on any subjeeet. in orrler that they could bn discussed for the benefit of all the Dominions. There iva.« urgent need of 'migrants. Without injustice to others,] lie could say that Australia was in the I vanguard <.f migration. The whole pros- j parity and safety of the Dominions depended on a population of British Mock, j The only real league of nation- in the world to-day wns the league of nations; in the British Empire. Sir Robert paid I a. tribute to Sir Joseph Cook's knowledge , of Kmpire affairs, and said he had larcely | relied on his advice at the Geneva (on-j lerenrp. Sir (Jeorse IVrlev. px-Hiah Commissioner for Canada, said it was necessary that Hicli Commissioners should meet , British Ministers periodically in connection with Kmpire afTairs. Sir Joseph Cook humorously remarked \ that Sir Robert Home's speech covered ] every aspect of Kmpire except his posi- j tion in the British Cabinet. All were | anxious '■<> know whether he had decided i to join the Cabinet, but he fiat, like Jack Iflorner in bis corner, e.ating Kmpire pie. j IKvervbody hoped that in the interests lof Kmpire development he would join I Mr. Stanley Baldwin.—(A. and X.Z.)