OUR DOMINION’S FUTURE

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1911, 23 May 1928, Page 5

OUR DOMINION’S FUTURE

A LAND OF PROMISE MR AAI FRY’S PREDICTION (Aust. and N.Z. Cable), London. May 21. The Prince of Walt's was the chief guest at the New Zealand Assoreat.uui’s annual dinner. I lie attendance was 4(H). including .Mr L. S. Amery. Secretary for rile Dominions. Lord Eustace Percy, Lord Klysant. Sir Joseph. Ward the Hon. AY. Pember Reeves. Sir Ernest Rutherford, Sir James Mills. NEW ZEALAND’S TRADE Sir James Parr presiding, contrasted the trade, balance of £2.500... 000 last year with, the present balance of LT0.500,000. Farmers produce in 1928. exported mostly to Britain, totalled £14.000.000 compared with L7.00!i.00.0 last year. THE PRINCE’S EULOGY The Prince of AY a les responding to [he ion si of his health, said, he had compared memories with the- Duke of York who had agreed upon the country's great future. Tlie presence of so main- Empire builders, and Sir James Parr’s figures proved the lieed-lessne-s of undue boasting. The Prince rejoiced that New Zealand cadets were eligible) for entry to Sandhurst and Woolwich military academies.

A PREDICTION Air L. S. Amery predicted that New Zealand’s future in the Pacific would equal Britain's in the Atlantic.