EMPIRE SENTIMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19041, 11 December 1923, Page 6

EMPIRE SENTIMENT

PLEA BY MR MASSEY. THE VALUE OF CONFERENCES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December a. Mr Massey, speaking at a luncheon at York given by Sir William Forster Todd, who was Lord Mayor when Mr Massey received the freedom of the city, said ne hoped that nothing would interfere with the splendid sentiment now steadily growing between the different countries of the Empire. He knew something of the forces working against it; but these forces could be countered if they made up their minds to do so. Mr Massey said he hoped that the Imperial Conference would have a good effect, for it was urgently, important to the Cabinet Ministers from the dominions to meet, even if they did not agrees He trusted that more satisfactory communications would be made between Britain and the dominions, because if, arrangements were nob made for this, some day some Power would come along and cut the connection. The visit of the naval squadron would do more to convince the dominions of Britain’s concern for the Empire than anything they could read in the newspapers.—A. and NJ4. Cable.