BURDEN OF EMPIRE.
COLONIES MUST TAKE THEIR SHARE. ! By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received June 12, 8.15 a.m.) i LONDON, 11th June. At the West Australian banquet, the Hon. W. Hall-Jones, High ComrnisI sioner for New Zealand, was present. The Hon. C. H. Rason, Agent-Gen-eral for West Australia, who presided, in proposing the toast of "The Empire," referred to the marvellous growth of the Tmperial spirit. The colonies, he said, now ( recognised that they must take up their share of ti:j burden of Empire, and make plain to other nations that they must calculate, not on the strength of any portion of the Empire, but of the whole.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 5
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108BURDEN OF EMPIRE. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 133, 12 June 1909, Page 5
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