CLOSE RELATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 6

CLOSE RELATIONS

DOMINION AND MOTHER COUNTRY NEW ZEALANDER'S EXPOSITION Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. HONOLULU, July 20. (Received July 21, at 9.20 a.m.) Mr Walter Nash 'secretary of the Now Zealand Labor Party), addressing the Institute of Pacific Relations, snM that New Zealand was part of the British Commonwealth of Nations. A true perspective of New Zealand was impossible unless it emphasised the close relation existing between the dominion and the Mother Country; yet New Zealand would strongly resent interference in its internal affairs on flic part of the British Government; hut in matters of foreign policy New Zealand rarely questioned the attitude adopted by Britain. “Opinion in New Zealand,” continued Mr Nash, “supports the declared policy of Britain jn regard to tho Singapore naval base. Tho policy of New Zealand is to foster and encourage the natives to use their own land and to adjust their customs to something approaching the standards of the present day. All tho parties in Parliament agree that the interests of the natives are paramount. We look at our problems through British spectacles.”