EMPIRE PARLIAMENTARY LUNCHEON

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 4 March 1914, Page 8

EMPIRE PARLIAMENTARY LUNCHEON

COLONIAL M.lViv :i_ISTJ_HTAINED

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(Received Mgvth 4. 12.30 p.m. ) LONDON, March 3. Mr Lewis Han'oui'l presided at the Empire Parliaii'.sMnarh'rts' luncheon to Mr Denliain and Mr Myers at the House of (.V nuiion:?. The Duka of Argyll, Lord 3vyo , Lord Plunket, and many M.P.'s .i_d i-Loir wives were present. Lord Emm'ott, i;i proposing "the Guests," paid a irihuu* to Australia and New Zealand i-;;r their reception of the British IVrHamentarians. H« added that the i-wia).' legislation of the colonies was dc: ,)iy. interesting, and inspired by a d<->.-ire ty benefit the millions rather Ilia" tlie millionaires. Mr Denhai". (Premier of Queensland) advocated th.;i State Parliaments should- be im <;< co; -%X'.>d hi the Parliamentary _A>soi.'!.'i v.->r, on the same terms as the CoEiiiiO!i'.vi.';i.iLii. British people often forgot thai tic States had sovereign rights. Mr Myers {'a\;>mhov for Auckland East) described tho reproductive character of tlie N^w Z^akrsd debt, and dwelt on the popularity of the Dominion's defence i-ystera, He explained the tendejuif,-. of the country's social legislation. The Duke of "Arevlj said that the Motherland shout; -rake hints from the Dominions' expevi^m"-:'. The Dominions, in many -of ?h" aspects of democracy, were old-jr than the people in England, and hao i<v:>:r\ her a lead in making; pati'tod'- ■-■:; <vlj.i-:^ on behalf of defence.