STRENUOUS TIME

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 216, 26 August 1927, Page 7

STRENUOUS TIME

MR. BALDWIN’S TOUR

MESSAGE FROM CANADIANS. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, Aug. 24. The Prime Minister and Mrs Bald win arrived at Southampton this afternoon in the liner Empress of Scotland from their Canadian tour Both spoke very highly of the way . they had been received in Canada. Addressing press representatives, the Prime Minister said: “I have had a very strenuous time, but it has been a wonderful experience, and I have enjoyed every minute of it. It is just 32 days since we sailed from Southampton. In that time we hav, travelled by steamer, train and motor 11,000 miles, an average of 340 miles a day. During the 19 days we were actually in Canada we visited all hei nine provinces, and you must remember that one Canadian province may be three times the size of the whole of the British Isles. In those 19 days I made 26 public speeches: I mentioned the speeches in case there is an impression that I have been having a holiday. “In come ways my visit was exceptional. It was my great privilege to travel with the Prlnoe of Wales and prince George, than whom I could wish for no better travelling com panions. Then, it was the first' time a Prime Minister of Great Britain had visited one of the dominions during his term ot office.”

Speaking of the agricultural and mineral possibilities of Canada, the Prime Minister said they were, humanly speaking, unlimited, yet, in spite of some thickly populated area, and great manufacturing cities, such as Montreal and Toroifto, there are, over the whole Dominion, only three people to the square mile. “Then you will begin to see why Canada s problem is so different from our own 1 did not hear of any serious problem in relations between capital and labour over there. Canada has plenty of elbow room for both. She needs both men and money. We have got to find means pf bringing willing hands and open spaces together.”

CHARACTERISTICS OF CANADIANS.

The Prime Minister added: “If I may mention one or two striking characteristics of the Canadian people they are these: rhe open-hearted welcome they give a visitor from the Old Country ; their keenness co hear, and to hear sympathetically, about our problems and the way we are fighting through them and solving them; and their vigorous optimism about their own future, and their confidence in the future and the stability of Great Britain and the British Empire. I am certain that I do not interpret the spirit of Canurte amiss, if 1 say that the message the Canadian people gave me to bring home is pne of faith, hope and affection—faith in our common tradi tions anfl methods of government, hope for the future, economic and political, of the British Empire, and affection for the British people and for the Throne, to which we and Canada and all the members of the British Commonwealth of Nations owe allegiance.”