EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT

Evening Star, Issue 17792, 14 October 1921, Page 6

EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT

CLAIMS OP CROWN COLONIES. NEGLECTED TRADE OUTLET. LONDON, October 2. “The development of Grown colonics is one. of the factors which ought, to be used in soiling the problem of the temporary collapse of markets,” declared Mr Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in an address given at the Gold Coast Civil Servin' dinner. "I ho time has now come when Crown colonies which have allaincd adult status should press forward their economic and mechanical developments,” lie added. Air WinstOn Churchill deplored Parliament's neglect of these great possessions, ami suggested that something might ho done to relieve the present lack of enterprise and initiative in the business and industrial world by placing orders for locomotives, rails, ami all apparatus needed in order to raise these fertile countries, with their active populations and immense natural resources, on a scientific basis.

‘ The Times,’ in a leading article, supports Mr Winston Churchill’s views on developing the vast resources of tho Crown colonies, the potentialities of which are not realised sufficiently in England. ‘ The Times ’ trusts that British merchants will take Air Winston Churchill's advice, and find in the development of the colonies a, means of profit to Ihemselves, to the community at large, and to the colonies (o which their enterprise may he directed.