LOYAL NEW ZEALAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23730, 10 February 1939, Page 11

LOYAL NEW ZEALAND

MOST SCOTTISH DOMINION “ ECONOMIC PIE” (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, Jan. 19. “ Scotland, New Zealand and the Future,” was the title of an address delivered by Colonel E. ff. W. Lascelles at an Overseas League luncheon, in Edinburgh. “If the hour of trial comes, the people of New Zealand will be found, to the last man and woman, in step with the Mother Country,” he said. “The New Zealand Scot always claims that New Zealand is the most Scottish of the dominions.” There was no part of Scotland with which he was acquainted that was more Scottish than the Scottish part of New Zealand. “ Olago is the most truly representative Scottish community outside Scotland. and more Scottish than a lot of Scotland.” TRADE WITH HOME COUNTRY Referring to the Government in office In New Zealand, to whose measures he

said he would be opposed were he in the country, Colonel Lascelles remarked that perhaps they had tried to go too far a little too fast. It was no business of anyone in this country, however, to criticise party politics in New Zealand. That was their business. New Zealand had always been the best customer of manufactured goods in the Home Country. The Prime Minister of New Zealand had once said that every shilling spent in New Zealand would be returned to this country, either in payment if interest on debts or for goods from this country. Until they could definitely say that that promise had not been kept, it was not their business to stick their fingers into this New Zealand economic pie. The speaker was thanked on the motion of Mr Roger Orr, W.S., who suggested that headquarters in London should act as a liaison between people returning from New Zealand and Scotland.