MEN, MONEY, & MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 56, 7 March 1923, Page 5

MEN, MONEY, & MARKETS

BRITAIN AND THE OVERSEAS

DOMINIONS.

(Received 7th March, 12.30 ■p.m.)

-' LONDON, 6th : .March. Sir Leopold Amery,presiding.'at Major Belcher's lecture on .Dominions.' representation at tine Empire Exhibition, said that what the Dominions required most were men, money, and markets. They could get the best people .in the world; from Britain (including women and children). Britain lent the cheapest money in the ■worldj and provided the best consulting markets, and those three "combined would be the greatest factors for development- in the future of the Dominions. Their; collective effect would elevate the Dominions to an important na: tional status, and Britain's clearest line of policy in Ahe, future was by way of Imperial preference in the. broadest and most comprehensive sense. Mr. John M'Whae (Agent-General for Victoria), Sir Edward Lucas (Agent-Gen-eral for South Australia), and Mr. A. H. • Ashbolt (AgentrGeneral for Tasmania), in supporting votes of thanks to the lecturer and the chairman, elugised Major Belcher and' Sir Leopold Amery. Mr. M'Whae ; described Sir Leopold, as the Etand.ardrbearer of Empire development.

Sir Edwai-d Lucas said that Sir Leopold, 1 Amery was. the first Imperial statesman to realise that migration meant not emigration, bat readjustment of Empire population.. ' Mr. Ash-bolt, predicted that Sir Leopould Amery-'s Empire Settlement Act, and, also the work- of the Overseas Settlement Committee- would become historical.

Major Belcher deajfc seriatim with the Dominions, and: described each eulogistic ally. He emphasised New Zealand scenery, dairying and meat industries, illustrating New Zealand's reputation for meat. He stated that, there was immensely more "Canterbury" lanib sold in England that ever came from New. Zealand. He-, described Australia's irrigation schemes as among- the. greatest in the world, and eulogised the plans for tha. Australian buildings as among the. best. He refuted allegations that the Wembley Park Buildings were a year behind. "As a matter of fact," he said, "they were six weeks ahead of' schedule time.