PREFERENCE IN EMPIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 162, 11 July 1925, Page 9

PREFERENCE IN EMPIRE.

LUNCHEON TO CHURCHILL. LONDON, July 10. A group of members of. the House of Commons, who were either born in, or arc associated with, the Dominions, tendered a luncheon to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Winston Churchill) in recognition of .the passage of preference. Sir Newton Moore, who presided, said the building up of Empire trade meant mutual safety. Mr. Churchill, in replying, said it must have had a chilling effect if Parliament had failed to endorse the unanimous decision of the Imperial Conference. It would have entitled those- in the Dominions to ask: Why attend such conferences? The Chancellor said he believed there were great possibilities In the consolidation of mutual helpfulness within the Empire. He was confident that, irrespective, of any. protocol, pact, or paper arrangement, the people of the Empire would develop a greater spirit of interdependence and co-operation, and woiild stand together in a time of stress. ' He was satisfied that their co-operation would be enlisted in a just cause. The gathering decided to form a nucleus group to watch eVertts from the point of view: of Empire developments.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)