DOMINION STATUS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 February 1927, Page 5

DOMINION STATUS.

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t. CABLK—HRBBS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT OTTAWA, Feb. 3. In a speech at Toronto, the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. W. L. Alackenzie King, said: “While it is not in one sense true that in respect to the constitutional position of Britain and the Dominions the Imperial Conference established nothing new, it is equally true that it has given a wholly new force and meaning to the established position. That position now carried with it the imprimatur of an Imperial Conference, voicing in one note of common agreement ,the opinion of all the parts of the British Empire as to the basic principles on which the Empire rested. “We believed,’’ he said, “before we left for England, that Canada was a self-governing community within the .British Empire, enjoying complete autonomy and in no way subordinate to the other parts' of the Empire with respect to her own domestic and external affairs and that, in these matters, the Parliament of Canada was supreme. We had, therefore, no question to raise on this score, but other parts of the Empire, more recently organised as self-governing Dominions than ourselves, may not have felt equally secure in the matter of their status. ’ ’ The Prime Minister said ue would reserve for discussion in Parliament what he had to say on the subject of defence.