MR. KIDSTON
HOUSE OP COMMONS , NOT IMPERIAL. (HI TELEGRAM—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPIRIGHT.) Lorifion, July 28. The Premier of Queensland, Mr. Kidston, was the guest • of ■ tho Corporation of Glasgow hi, luncheon. ' ■ 5 In a speech he appealed for emigrants of the old stock-self-reliant people who would be able to hold a, new country-as their forefathers had defended tho old land. He was' pleased, ho said, that tho Motherland was looking -to. her children' for help. She' did not want Australia to .'go for.-engines or machinery to Germany, but,, lie asked, where ; did the Motherland get her : butter? - They.-'talked, about the Imperial' Parliament, -but there was no Imperial Parliament. How could, a great .Empiro bo placed on a healthy, permanent footing with a local Parliament ,at Westminster not representing portions-outside Britain? Ho trusted that 'British statesmen and peopie : would ialco tho first great step in tho direction of giving a Federal Constitution fco.'thp Empiro. . . '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 263, 30 July 1908, Page 7
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152MR. KIDSTON Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 263, 30 July 1908, Page 7
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