AID TO BRITAIN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 March 1926, Page 5

AID TO BRITAIN.

HOW NEW ZEALAND CAN HELP ELY

ENCOURAGEMENT OF MIGRATION

(BY TELEGRAPH.—-PRESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, March, 25. Speaking at a: farmers’ function last night, the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) said the Dominion could help the Mother Country in no better way than by helping to bring out the right class of men, women and children to this country. While the Empire was finding a difficulty in reconstruction, so essential after the severe problems of the war, the Dominion must assist the Mother Country in ‘her hour of need, and not be distracted fiy distractions in other countries. In this way they would be true Imperialists. They must also keep in touch with other parts of the Empire in order to bring about that close co-opera-tion necessary ' to make the Empire what it should be. He believed there was to be another visit of Dominion Parliamentarians to Australia at no distant date, and it was only by such visits that they could realise, first hand, all their aspirations, the atmosphere and the political outlook of the widespread population of the Empire. He did not know if they would come to New Zealand. All that was required was solidarity and combination among their own people, and no country would treat them so well as did their own. There were family squabbles, but it was the big idea that they wanted, and the time was coming when ' that comprehension would be given to the men responsible for the government of the Empire.