EMPIRE TRADE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 244, 9 July 1921, Page 7

EMPIRE TRADE

THE PROPOSED EXHIBITION MR. MASSEY URGES SUPPORT OF COLONIES AND DOMINIONS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright IRec. July 8, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 8. At the luncheon given to overseas Prime Ministers by the Empire Exhibition Committee, a large number of business men were present. Mr. Massey said such an exhibition - as proposed at the end of the reconstruction period was worthy of th© support of every part of the Empire, to show what the countries of the Empire were capable of. When he said the countries of the Empire he included also the forty-three Crown colonies and dependencies, some of which were comparatively soon to be endowed with the dignity of Dominions. It was urgently necessary that th© Empire should show, not only to the rest of the world, but to its own manufacturers, what it could do, and what its resources were. New Zealand would do what it had never failed to do, namely, its duty. He took the opportunity of again Referring to the necessity for faster shipping, lower cable rates, and reduced freights.— Special to Press Assn.