CONTACT OF NATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19807, 30 November 1927, Page 12

CONTACT OF NATIONS.

CLOSER TIES POSSIBLE. THE EMPIRE'S CONSTITUTION. INDIVIDUALITY PRESERVED. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. J WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Following the State luncheon, Mr. and Mrs. Amery were welcomed by a large assemblage of members of the English Speaking Union to-day. "There is nothing in the structure of tho British Empire to-day," said Mr. Amery in a speech, "which would make it impossible for any nation outside, even so great a nation as tho United States, to come closer together without abandoning any of its status or any of its privileges. It would only gain and not lose by coming into closer contact. "That is a very remarkable fact about tho British Empire to-day. United as it is—destined to become in every way more closely united—it still has within itself a scope of freedom and individuality for its smallest and greatest members " Mr. Amery attended a reception given by the Navy League and Victoria league He said he considered New Zealand was doing a fair share in regard to navaJ defence. Tho Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association also tendered a reception to Mr. Amery, at which lie was described as "the chief commercial traveller for John Bull and Company." HISTORY OF COLONISATION. PICTURE FILMS SUGGESTED [BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL REPORTER.] WELLINGTON, Tuesday A suggestion that in the history of the early colonisation of the overseas Dominions of the Empire might be found material for moving pictures of Imperial interest has been made to the Secretary for the Dominions, Mr. L. S. Amery, by Mr. Allen Bell, member for the Bay of Islands. Mr. Bell gave ideas to Mr. Amery, who said he would be pleased to put them before an official who had been sent by the British Government to America to investigate film production in that country.

DAIRY INDUSTRY'S NEEDS. " EVEN MORE EFFICIENCY." In the course of an interview in Wellington regarding trade prospects, Mr. Amery emphasised that the prospects for the immediate future were more than favourable. "Wool is up," he remarked smilingly, "and that means a good deal to the pastoral industry and the Dominion as a whole. Moreover, the outlook for the dairy farmer is very encouraging. The present season has opened well and, with the increased production which is evident and a good level of prices maintained, this year should prove much better than last. I am not going to touch upon one aspect of the situation last season, but undoubtedly the aftermath of the general strike and the trade depressioh in Britain had a very direct bearing on the trade of this Dominion. That was inevitable and it goes to showhow, inevitably, the various parts of the Empire are interdependent one upon the other." Mr. Amery said that he had been impressed with the very efficient organisation of tho dairying industry of New Zealand. He said that as a result of his personal observation. Nevertheless, there was need for further organisation and even more efficiency, not only in the dairying industry, but in other departments of Empire trade. He was at sea on his way from South Africa when the revision of the New Zealand tariff was being discussed and he, therefore, was not fully conversant with all that was involved. But from the facts that he was in possession of he was impressed with the increased value of the Dominion's preference to Britain, which was matter for gratitude. Oft the whole, Mr. Amery said, lie thought there was room for optimism with" respect to the Dominion's trade outlook. It was all a matter of balance. Conditions were slowly, but steadily, improving in Britain and he thought he could say, from what he knew, that the Dominion was now "round the corner."