EMPIRE COTTON
GOVERNMENT TO FOSTER CULTIVATION EXTRAORDINARY NEGLECT OF TROPICAL COLONIES By Telegraph—Pres* Association—Copyright London, June 8. Lord Derby, addressing tho British Cotton-growing Association at Manchester, said that our relations with tho colonies were changing. They were passing from the status of dependencies, and were becoming partners and colleagues of the Allies. They were, looking to Mr. Churchill to effect that change without friction, a task in which he believed Mr. Churchill’s' qualities would help. Mr. Churchill said' that, although the progress and development of Empire cotton had been constant, it was but on a small scale, the whole product amounting only to 2j per cent, of Lancashire’s requirements. Our twenty years’ neglect of the tropical colonies was extraordinary. The Government now had decided to devote a million from the war-time share of Egyptian cotton profits to foster Empire cotton-growing. This would replace f;he -£50,000 subvention promised the cotton-growing corporation.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 219, 10 June 1921, Page 5
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152EMPIRE COTTON Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 219, 10 June 1921, Page 5
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