EMPIRE ON THE MAP.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20917, 6 January 1930, Page 10

EMPIRE ON THE MAP.

AN ECONOMIC ENTITY. LORD BEAVERBROOK’S CAMPAIGN. (From Our Own Correspondent.) «r it> LONDON, November 26. . Lo ™ Beaverbrook is doing the Empire a tremendous service/* The speaker was Sir James Parr.. New Zealand's retiring High Commissioner. Sir James continued: — , ."I sa y that 1 entirely agree with bis object, and that I go most of the l'i. ajr iA'* i Mm.. Lord Beaverbrook is the first great journalist and newspaper proprietor who has vigorously and fearlessly espoused the cause of Empire trade, u e launching of his campaign has put the Empire on the map as an economic entity.

No doubt the Freetradc-within-the-Empue eampaipn will have to grapple with great difficulties, but the Empire undoubtedly can supply all the food needed, and without any increase in ■prices. I believe that in three years the British Empire would be in a position to supply all the food required—including even all the flour—and at no advancement in cost. The food tax argument which floored Mr Joseph Chamber lam 30 years ago is now a bogev so great has been the development of ’ the Empire in recent years. ** There is a fear in the dominions,' said the High Commissioner in conclusion “that their industries would be swamped by the influx of British goods that would be sent out. But I believe that even problems such as that, if handled bv capable business men. could be adjusted without loss to the capital or labour employed in dominion industrial enterprises. Of course the project will take time, but I heiieve that in the long run something like Lord Beaverbrook’s policy will come about. It would , ensure more employment all round, a bigger output for British-grown foodstuffs, and more consumption of British goods as against importations from foreign countries. Lastly, it will hold the Emnire together,”