THE HON. ANDREW FISHER

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1915, Page 7

THE HON. ANDREW FISHER

CIVIC RECEPTION AT DUNEDIN.

Impress Association.] dunedin; Jan* s;s. ■A feature of .the cordial civic reception to ; the Australian Prime .Minister, -fco-day was the emphasis laid upon the tteoessity for commercial and social intercommunication between the Commonwealth arid the Dominion. *Fhe H«n. Andr-ew Fisher was deeply impressed by the great attendance. With his lofity view of the overseas aspects of Imperialism the HonMr Fisher considered it a. miracle that the greatest war in history th© iEmpire's :great; possessions : overseas were pra^iically untouched by tfee ravages of wistr. Fromthis'he drew a stirring lesson of the need of ibtyth Australia -and New Zealand realising $heir opportunities and respoksibilities, and of doing more in th© same spirit as that which had aroused! their forefathers -to labor and to succeed. It ■was not only necessary to defend their resourceful island home, but to spare ■sometHihg from their _great capacities -to "help the Mother Country. If the ever cam© when' from out of this "tremendous war sprang an inter- { aational system of adjusting inter'najtional disputes without the necessity of disastrous strife the -cost of' the war was worth it-all. lit had been said that Britain had been tyrannising all ov«r~.:-t^l®--^<?r^*-----i''^l:'Sj-:'^ei..-d6-----clai-ed emphatically, was a ;lie, an<3 -those who urged it kni^w1 tShc^; Bed.