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NEWSPAPER MEN ON TOUR.

(By Electric Telegraph.7<.'opyright,), Per Press Association. ! Received May 22, at 8.15 a.m. ' - Ottawa, Hay 21. The . Board of Trade at Ottawa presented to the Australasian Press delegates 'an address t mphasising the need of State-owned Empire cables. Mr Thomas, South. Australia, in replying, to tho address, said that Australasians wei;o anxious to obtain closet touch with ho motherland land •the sister dominion: i, flwt they could not agree to ig<no: rd tho interests of the Eastern Extension Company.

! <:■■).'.. .■;!<i'oT oti-f Mi; .li!-'i' •>n ' J)!''/ Messrs J. lia);,and.|MjarkT_. iCohen .{Dmicdin), werq',,r.among','tlio. chut, speaker,' .'at tho-' ■ luncheon 'given by,!'Mr, Oliver,, Minister of the Interior., .■-'..[, i! The Board of Trade and the newspaper "proprietors i> Of\- tJfoiitreal entertained Y'iVio' delegated TospMtivcly' ! nt l luncheon'; and'.banquet: '" ■;■[ ' Mr Thomas,' iii iun ''inlci'vimv, said:

",)Yc,- proposer, to protect, oursclyea' itnd,-. ipur.! rcgipn, r,,'but,, aro.nofy lcss.de-, terminediito ; -help i.tho Motherland to., bring her navy to tho ..highcsil point' of strength. It is certain (bhaib in tlio coming session of the Commonwealth Parliament''our ; relations with' the Empire in tlio matter-of, ' dc- : fence will bo a foremost '. subject." ■

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North Otago Times, 24 May 1909, Page 1

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NEWSPAPER MEN ON TOUR. North Otago Times, 24 May 1909, Page 1

NEWSPAPER MEN ON TOUR. North Otago Times, 24 May 1909, Page 1