FELLOWSHIP OF EMPIRE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIII, Issue 8683, 10 September 1924, Page 7

FELLOWSHIP OF EMPIRE

ITS MEANING AND FF'ITRE

Mon of British stock, taken as n whole, are not a bad-loving race. M itii very little persuasion we can he induced to join this or that association, and find pleasure in so doing, but to he asked to wear a distinctive badge to denote membership or fellowship is something from which the average man shrinks. Tt is the more significant therefore, to dim] that the badge oi one of the fewest of our national associations is not only welcomed, *ifut worn, a fact which in itself denotes that the Empire-wide movement known as the Fellowship of the -British Empire Exhibition has “caught on.” Inaugurated primarily to help the Empire Exhibition by enrolling a great number of season-ticket holders, says the Daily Telegraph, the fellowship has spread with such amazing rapidity that to-day there is not a single Dominion. colony, or protectorate without its group of members, and the hope, is being expressed that when the great Exhibition has run its course an even greater Imperial task will be found for an organisation so all-em- ! racing, and. moreover, free from nil political Tiins. No better expression its aims could he found than that contained in the words of Sir Henry M‘Mahon, .the chairman of the Central Committee, when he said that the Fellowship “aims to enrol in its ranks all the citizens and subjects of the Empire who recognise that in the organisation of that Empire there has been the most serious effort that human civilisation has ever made to promote human progress and unman liberty, and that the British Empire Exhibition i- the most serious attempt yet made to illustrate the results of that ntlort." The fellowship has been organised. in a sense, as a separate entity, with its own defined organisation, ami ♦'very day fresh evidence is forthcoming of its growth and progress. Recently' the Duke of Devonshire received a letter from Viscount .Tellieoe, Govci-nor-General of New Zealand, stating that lie, with the full approval ol hi.s Government, was taking every stop to advance the interests of the fellowship in Now Zealand. There has also been a gratifying response in India. Burma , and the Far East, where in some ol the

smaller colonies, tip to ‘AH |>or cent, of the white adult population have Joined the Fellowship. Kvery bank within the Empire N acting us an enrolling centre. The only punlifieation required <»f a joining member is that nt luuiitr a BritI.sh s U l,joi i. and under the comprehensive titles are included men of every < oionr and creed. The subscript ion two guineas, amt ,’i j v ihe intention of ihe Fellowship to use subscriptions to carry out a scheme of Imperial education and to gram a number of Kmpire •scholarships (of sums up to Cl 000 < aeh i which will he available for young tiiizeiis of the I'nit.ed Kingdom to settle in tbe overseas notninions or colonies, and for citizens of the Empire ovtu-scas j.i undertake a university eonr-e or a teelniical iOiil'se In the 11'Mtio ( ‘on nt ry. ''We want to get the people talking about the Umpire.’’ said .Miijor Frank Fox, the .secretary. ‘ ‘We Wiinr our peop],. say. -This is mine: we have every right I , be proud eii it. ;ind we acknowledge mir rosponsihibiy tit develop i{. for niir own henefd and lor the henefif of the rues associated with us in the Fnipire.’ ” li is in that spirit that the Fellowship ol the British Empire Exhibition is being built up, and whether at the (dose of 102! it will content itself with the work it- lias-, then done, or whether, as is more likely, it will ask its members to eoutlnue ibeir energies for some other Imperial task, it is destined to rank as a worthy achievement in the history'of the ore at Exhibition.”

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