PLEA FOR AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 112, 8 November 1930, Page 9

PLEA FOR AUSTRALIA

CO-OPERATION NEEDED LORD STOXEHAVEX IX CANADA (Received Bth November, 1 p.m.) VICTORIA (8.C.), 7th'November. The late Governor-General of Australia, Lord Stonehaven, addressing the Canadian Club on Friday, said that Lady Stonehaven and himself were sorry to leave Australia at a time when she faced many difficulties, difficulties caused primarily by the fall in the prices of her staple products, -wheat and wool. "Those difficulties," he said, "are the problems of that country alone, however, and to say anything about them is to tamper with something she can. capably hanule herself." Proceeding to describe the large percentage of British people in Australia and the war contribution of her people, he said they had the spirit and courage to bring her back to the smooth channel of progress. He suggested that Canadians couia help by buying Australian, goods. "Looking at things from, the point of view of the Imperialist," he said, "one must realise that the British Commonwealth is not in as satisfactory a condition as when it embarked as a united Empire on the greatest adventure in its history, the war. The Empire is more than a quarter of the world, yet tho Mother Country has two million unemployed, while labouring under a heavy taxation burden; Why is it wo have not been able to secure the same co-operation in peace as in war? Our constitutional independence of each other must have something to do with it. The spirit of comradeship which brought the Empire through the war must bo the keynote of its development in industry." He said that he hoped to note this in his tour through Canada.