VALUE OF PACIFIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 12

VALUE OF PACIFIC.

DOMINIONS' NEW WORLD. DISSEMINATING INFORMATION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. "Many of us, and I think that is most of us, who have not had the opportunity previously of visiting New Zealand or this part of the Pacific have for the first time, perhaps, fully recognised the importance of the Pacific to the British races," said Viscount ,Elibank when speaking at the State luncheon to the Empire commerce delegates to-day. "As some of us travelled across Canada," he continued, "and arrived at Vancouver we recognised that it was the Canadian Pacific gateway. Then we arrived here in New Zealand, and looking across to Australia, all peopled with virile British stock, we feel and know that a new world is .opening up before our eyes, a world. full of opportunities and resources only, waiting for population and development, and that there are responsibilities here in the Pacific which are growing every day. "In. the United Kingdom this situation is to-day but dimly recognised, although the British Parliament has recently been very concerned at the suggestion that a line of shipping from Canada to New Zealand and Australia might have to be withdrawn owing to severe subsidised competition. But it is through the assemblage of congresses such as ours that information of this character can be disseminated through I the Empire and brought before the right quarters."