THE EMPIRE'S NEEDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7869, 3 August 1911, Page 8

THE EMPIRE'S NEEDS

SIR JOSEPH WARD ADDRESSES STUDENTS. CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS. moil OUB SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, June 23. Slip Joseph and Lady Ward, Miss W:trd and Mr J. 111-lop attended at the Crystal Palace on Saturday a moating of British and colonial technical students of the livfceniajtional Correspondence Schools.- The Now Zealand students sent tho following cable, wiiicli was rend to tiho assemblage: Please convey greetings to fellow students at .Palace to-day. Heartiest wishes for su coins!ul gathering. T'ho Prime Minister of New Zealand, addressing the students, liegan with a reference to a New Zealander, Air J. G. Smith, who liad done an immenso amount of work for tho 1.0.5. in Now Zealand and in England. He congratulated tho organisation on the fact that they had 100,000 students in all parts of tho world, including 100,000 in Canada, 42,000 in Groat Britain, GOOD in India and the-Crown colonies, 7000 in New Zealand, and 50WJ in Australia. Tho Poalnuaator-G-cueral of tho Commonwealth of Australia had given instructions by circular to the thousands of officials in his department urging them to join this organisation, and wnen he (tho speaker) returned ho would givo similar instructions. (Cheers.) He was firmly convinced that by means of these schools valuable information was disseminated in a way calculated to.do the greatest amount of good. Sir Joseph added that ho hoped that those responsible for the creation of that magnificent organisation would makes a point of impressing on all those to whom they corresponded tho all-im-portant consideration, in view of tho developments taking plaoo in Other countries, of having a world-wide navy for the general protection of all parts of tho British Empire. (Ohcers.) The Imperial Conference were doing an immense amount of good; and while it was not possible, where there ware so many different minds and iso many dissimilar objects, to expect men to agree upon everytldng, still they might depend upon it that thoir efforts would be to remove any barrier towards bringing about more cohesion and 00-oporatioa and greater unity among the scattered portions of the British Empire. (Cheers.) The representatives attending tho Imperial Conference were proud to bo within tho territory of Old England. They recognised that it wan from the older land they had sprung, and those who were responsible for the government of tho newer lands would bo able to profit by the excusable mistakes made by their forefathers when building up tho Empire in pelat oanrirnio.s. (Qhoons.) "ACT IMPERIALLY.” Sir Joseph Ward spoke at tho Constitutional dub's luncheon to tho oversea Premiers on Saturday. Ho said Britain did not require the assistance of the oversea Dominions in the time of peace, but in tunes of danger thoy must ail stand together. (Oheors.) But unless there was some system by which tho Dominions .could have a more direct voice in tho direction of Imperial concerns there was a groat danger in the years to oar no. They ought, as. the outcome of the interchange of views taking place now, to be able to do some good in those matters. There ought to be no snoli thing as “party*' in these matters. Tho interests were too big; the responsibilities were .too great. (Cheers.) The people must bo educated Imperially, and be got to act Imperially. (Cheers.)