Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

ALL FOR EMPIRE LEAGUE.

[P*n Press Association.) WELLINGTON, February 18. The toms •of a meeting held at the Commercial Travellers' Club to-day was intensely Imperial, and as tho outcome an All for Empire League was iormod. The resolution carried was as iollows: « ’[’hat this meeting of members of tho Wellington Commercial Travellers’ Association cordially endorses the action taken bv the delegates at the eonlereiice of the United Travellers and Warehousemen's Association, hold at Ohiistchurch on February 10, and approves of tho formation of an All for Empire League as outlined in Empire Leaflet-, No. 1, fooling sure that- the bust interests of tho. country and Empire- necessitate the elimination of enemy trade and influence from our midst. Tho meeting, pledges itself to use every possible endeavour in furthering the objects of the league, and undertakes to heartily support any representative committee that may he sot up to take charge of the movement.” The resolution was tho outcome of action taken by the recent Commercial Travellers’ Conference at Christchurch. The objects of the league, as one gentleman present described them, are expressed in the woyds “ Out with the Gprman trader.”

Permanent link to this item

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT19160219.2.23

Bibliographic details

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17096, 19 February 1916, Page 7

Word Count
189

ALL FOR EMPIRE LEAGUE. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17096, 19 February 1916, Page 7

ALL FOR EMPIRE LEAGUE. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17096, 19 February 1916, Page 7

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert