EMPIRE PREFERENCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 July 1925, Page 5

EMPIRE PREFERENCE.

GREAT POSSIBILITIES AHEAD. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COP YRjGUT. LONDON, July 9. A gro-up of members of the House of Commons, who were either horn in or associated with the Dominions, tendered a luncheon to Mr Winston Churchill (Chancellor of the- Exchequer) in recognition of his passage of preference. Sir Newton Moore, who presided v emphasised that the building up of the Empire trade meant mutual safety. Mr Churchill, replying, said it must have a chilling effect if Parliament failed to endorse the unanimous decision of the Imperial Conference, and it would entitle those in the Dominions to ask why they should attend such a conference. Personally, he believed there were great possibilities in the consolidation of mutual helpfulness within the Empire. He was confident that, irrespective of any protocol, pact or paper arrangement, the people of the Empire would develop a greater spirit of interdependence and co-opera-tion, and that they would stand together in a time of stress. He was satisfied that their co-operation was enlisted in a iust cause. The gathering decided to form the nucleus of a group to watch events from the standpoint of Empire development.