EMPIRE PROBLEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 August 1925, Page 5

EMPIRE PROBLEMS.

NEED FOR SOLUTION

team Work essential. (by TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WE'LLiNION, Aug. 26. The guest of honour at the New Zealand Club this afternoon was Sir Harry Brittain, a member of the British delegation to the Empire Press Union conference. As never before in our history, .mi - Harry Brittain said, it was necessary to dose up the ranks of thought in ne'.pful comradeship. There was plenty of life and grit left in the Old Country, and they knew they would obtain Iroin New Zealand all the support she could give. Reconstruction on a-broader basis was imperative. It was the rail that had developed America as the sea had developed our Empire. America had concentrated on the development of her people, while much of our expenditure nad perforce been upon scattered units, but anything that the United States could do the British Empire could do. “We have got to go in for teamwork, said Sir Hany, “but if we could get the same'interest in team work into the Empire that pervaded the All B acks, there would be a remarkable advance.” Up to now we had been working only slowly. Britain had put up money, and was prepared to spend t. but the oDminions must advise on that expenditure. The ramifications of development, especially in our tropic possessions, clamoured for attention. Empire preference was gaining ground, and the problem was all through one of united action. On- the sea as many new routes were required to link up all our units as ashore. Better transport was required. Me were just at the beginning of the great air .transport age. and within the next few years it would be possible for New Zealanders to he in London in nine or ten days. Thf? advantage of being able to bring important men together for Empire conferences in a few days could not be overestimated, and rapid transport would have a marked effect on the encouragement of basic Imperial agriculture.

There was room for an immense improvement in New Zealand publicity. He had never seen a fairer spot. “Let the world know more about yourselves, he remarked.' “I knew your great* Mr Massey well, and I have read a good den', but what does the man in Canada or the United States know of New Zealand? Not half as much as he oimht to do.” Captain Shaw, of the London Times, also spoke warmly of the hospitality extended to them. 4< T do not know what vour prescription for making New Zealanders is,” he said, “but all that seems necessary is to give an Irishman, a Scotchman or an Englishman a steamer ticket and the rest to you I went yesterday to Flock House, that •s’Mendid and wonderful institution, butthere they merely scratch the surface of the great problem of population and your security.”