CANADA’S PROGRESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1938, Page 2

CANADA’S PROGRESS

DOMINION DAY SPEECHES [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIBELESS] RUGBY. July 2. In proposing the toast of Canada, at the Dominion Day dinner of the Canada Club, held in London, at which he was the principal guest, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon), congratulated that country on its .satisfactory financial and economic position. It was l , he said, a tribute to the well-balanced economy which had been built up by successive Dominion Governments, that notwithstanding the (ieipressed world economic conditions' and the failure of her own wheat crop, Canada’s accounts for the last financial year showed that the revenue for that period Was higher than at. any previ'O’uis time in her history. Sir John Simon referred to racial animosity in certain parts of the world, and added: “Canada set an example of how the' spirit of freedom is best promoted by reconciliation between different races and different points of view.” Mr. Vincent Massev. High Commissioner for Canada, whP presided, said one of the factors which’ had helped Canada to stand more firmly on its own economic footing Was the development of Imperial trade and the system' of preference between Canada and oilier British communities'.