IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
SIR JAMES PARR'S VIEWS. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGK.AU.) MASTERTON, February 4. The Ottawa Conference -would be the event of the year for New Zealand, said Sir James Parr in an address here to-day. He expressed his confidence that tho Conference would serve its intended purpose of promoting a great extension and expansion of inter-Imperial trade, and urged tho paramount importance of adequate preparation for the effective representation of this country at the great Imperial gathering. There were cracks in the Imperial structure, said Sir James, and cement was needed to close and bind those cracks. He suggested that the only cement that would hold the structure of the Empire together was that of mutually profitable trade between all parts of the Empire. "The Ottawa Conference will decide whether we aro to mix this cement of Empire and whether our race is to take up in the right spirit its great heritage of one-fourth of the globe," he said. '' The opening of the Ottawa Conference* will be a red letter day for New Zealand and the Empire."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19320205.2.55
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20463, 5 February 1932, Page 8
Word Count
177IMPERIAL CONFERENCE Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20463, 5 February 1932, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in