A UNITED EMPIRE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 139, 16 June 1927, Page 12

A UNITED EMPIRE

SPEAKING WITH ONE VOICE

BUILDING DP TRADE

Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, M.P. for Coventry, was the guest of the New Zealand Club at luncheon to-day. He gavo a graphic account of his tour through the North Island, and spoke in high terms of the marvels of the thermal region.

After urging the importance of reciprocal visits of'the people of the Old Land and the Dominions, he said that our Empirej had been built upon, peace; the Empire had been maintained by the ships of the Empire. The Empire depended upon the success of our shipping. The success of commerce depended upon the possession of adequate reserves of wealth. If the different parts of the Empire traded together, all would be well. We must make up our minds whether it was of the essence of the Empire that trade between the Mother Country and the Dominions should increase, and. ever increase, to the mutual benefit of all.

Let us, he urged, do all in our power to develop our own Imperial trade and resources. After "all we had suffered in the Great War, after our men had paid with their lives for what they believed to be for a more happy Em-, pire, unless we took advantage of the present opportunity for the co-operatioli and mutual benefit of all parts of the Empire, we would bo failing in our clear duty. Wo must take counsel together; and if we were strong in our determination to maintain everything we believed to be upright and just and true, we could only get that strength by the mutual trade between the Dominions and the Mother Country. The voice of England would be heard with a clearer and more powerful note if that voice had behind it the full might of the well-directed, elevated, and moral influence of the Empire.