N.Z. AND EMPIRE

Grey River Argus, 25 May 1935, Page 5

N.Z. AND EMPIRE

MR FORBES’S VIEWS. EMIGRATION QUESTION. (Received May 24. 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 24. Most of the newspapers draw attention to ’Empire Day and its special significance in Jubilee year. The ‘ Morning Post’’ publishes interiews with the Prime Ministers. Mr Forbes says: “Imperial defence ■s closely linked with the Empire’s future, but I can see no need for a drastic alteration of the* present system. The British Government is going ahead steadily with its policy of defence. It has, in mv view, done all possible in the cause of peace.*’ Mr Forbes added: “The establishment of a land settlement scheme in New Zealand would merely increase the production of goods for already glutted markets. A solution of the marketing problem would do more to consolidate the Empire than anything '••se I see no royal road tq such an end. but I believe we shall find, a least, part of the way in the present talks in London.”