DOMINION AND CANADA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18295, 11 January 1923, Page 7

DOMINION AND CANADA.

UNKNOWN TO EACH OTHER. "Your country: is not known to Canadians, and it is not right that an important part of the British ; Empire . should be so much a stranger to its sister Empire citizens. Your scenery, your climate.; your wonders, your productiveness, and your manufactures should be as well known to us as to your brothers in Australia, and that can only be accomplished by rubbing shoulders with each other."..;.': Such was ■ the view expressed in Wellington by Mr.; James P. Murray,: of Toronto, an associate director -of the: National Canadian Exhibition. - ■ ■/} ;J: Mr. Murray, who has already ■ spent; seven weeks in the Dominion, has come;; 10,000 miles to renew acquaintance with; an old friend, and hopes to double that; period before. he leaves for his home. He has been a carpet manufacturer on a large scale, but retired from business eleven years ago, just before he. reached his 60th year. He says he has two ' ; bees in his bonnet" he desires ventilated in the interests of New Zealand, and will see the Prime Minister in regard to them. . "I know New Zealand has been generous enough to enact a large measure of preference to us—a privilege ; Australia has not yet conceded— what is the good of that unless you give some, ocular demonstration of what you . are and why there is. any advantage in that , concession,'" he continued. "I do not desire any kudos for my .suggestion, as there is nothing for me to gain personally, but I desire, that everything that can be done to cement the great relationship should be tried, and I am convinced that it would be to everyone's advantage to. bring Canada into closer association with every part of the Empire. It is not uncommon to find among individuals that when members of a family separate and travel to different parts of the world communication with each other ceases and they become; as strangers. I should not like that tohappen to the Dominions, but that their relations should become closeivand closer as the years roll on, and they should re,( gard the Empire as one large family of nations, related by ties of kinship -md comradeship, all out for the Empire as' a whole and its component parts in par-: ticular. I want to enlist the " sympathy; and support of all New Zealand's newspapers in this scheme, of linking up the! Empire, and I am confident that where ; they lead the people will follow." | _,;;.., ...... .;■^-;^: •:-■.; ■:.■■■•-- ■;::-;, Hi