LORD LOVAT

Evening Star, Issue 19774, 26 January 1928, Page 6

LORD LOVAT

PROPOSED DOMINION TOUR CRITICISED BY LONDON PAPER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 25. (Received January 26, at 9.10 a.m.) The ‘ Daily Express ’ editorially disagrees that Lord Lovat’s proposed tour would result in national and imperial advantage, especially in view of the fact that Mr Amery is just completing his tour. The suggestion that he should go gallivanting to the doriiinions for months at the public expense strains the requirements of the office too much. The dominions know their business, and if Lord Lovat does not, he can easily and inexpensively ascertain it from the dominions offices in London. “ Let us get on with the actual job instead of running expensive trips to talk about it. In other words, let us send out emigrants, not Lord Lovat.”

[A message received in December last stated that Lord Lovat sails for Canada in July, thence to New Zealand and Australia, and possibly bouth Africa, returning to England in December. In an interview, he said that his principal purpose as chairman ot the Oversea Settlement Committee was to investigate and report both an individual and family settlement in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and also, as chairman of the Forestry Commission, to investigate the forestry resources of the dominion, ills departure from England was arranged for mid-year to enable exhaustive consultations with Mr Amery, who is expectod homo in. March.]