IMPERIAL CONFERENCE RESULTS ACHIEVED

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 January 1927, Page 9

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

RESULTS ACHIEVED

MAIN PRINCIPLES CLARIFIED SAYS' MR. COATES. t!Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 12.50 p.m. to-day. LONDON. Jan. 4. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, in an interview, expressed his gratitude lor the kindness and the public- and private hospitality accorded them whereeve r he and his wife had gone. He had been most gratified by the cordial sentiment demon,stinted on every hand towards the course followed by the Imperial Conference, which would achieve important practical results. He paid a tribute to the efforts British manufacturers had made to keep abreast with Dominion requirements. Britain’s industrial future would be brighter if peace were ensured. His welcome would always remain a hapnv memory. He added that some people suggested that the accomplishments of the conference were political and not practical, hut he considered that the conference had clarified essential principles for the Empire’s future progress and unity, hut it needed a study of oversea .requirements regarding articles of general or domestic use. UNITY OF EMPIRE STRENGTHENED. MR. BRUCE’S OPINION. * Received 12.40 p.m. to-day. OTTAWA, Jan. 4. Mr. Bruce, continuing hisi address at cbe diner at Toronto, said: “1 know there will be a number of people who have been very alive and very loyal in their belief in the Empire and beleive that a. great Empire is the greatest l'oi'ce towards the universal peace of the world, and who have a, kind of apprehension that something has been done that might eventually lead to its disintegration. Gentlemen, I wish to ■say that there is not the slightest foundation for such a suspicion or allegation. What was done there (Imperial Conference) was done with my cordial co-operation and assistance because I believed it to be wise and that it would tend to a closer uniting of the Empire. If the determinations of the conference had been to impair in the slightest- degree that unity, it would never have had my consent. I should have fought to the last ditch to prevent such action.”