AMERY WELCOMED

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 261, 4 November 1927, Page 7

AMERY WELCOMED

DINNER AT CANBERRA Australian Viewpoint On Empire Ideals. SIR A. MOND SUPPORTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, November 3. At a Parliamentary dinner at Canberra, the Australian Federal capital, Mr. S. M. Bruce, Federal Prime Minister, welcomed Mr. L. S. Amexy, Secretary for the Dominions. He said that no Empire statesman had done more to bring about the recent remarkable achievement of the modern Empire Government or had laboured more unceasingly to enforce its realisation. Mr. Bruce referred to Sir Alfred Mond's speech in London suggesting the Empire as an economic unit, and said that until recently we had applied to the economic relationship of the Empire those haphazard and unsympathetic methods which characterised political relationship before the loss of the American colonies. As a result we were mistress of the seas, owning the bulk of the world's shipping and fertile lands in every portion of the globe and producing man's every necessity, but owing to lack of co-operation we were challenged in the race for economic supremacy. British markets within the Empire itself had been permitted to go to forefgh rivals and many golden opportunities had been wasted, but the time was not yet too late. Australia wanted io develop the country with British stock, to buy Empire goods and to sell Australian exports in Empire markets. Replying, Mr. Amery advised all to work together for the advancement of the Empire, cultivating a wide Imperialistic outlook and higher ideals. '