MOTHERLAND & COLONIES
LONDON, March 16. In the course of his speech at the banquet tendered to him by the Colonial Institute Sir George said that the insinuation that Australia's loyalty was mixed up with the fiscal question, and depended on the Motherland's answer to these questions of preference and reciprocity, was an unfounded slander.— (Cheers.) Any views on a departure from the present position were based on the conviction that it embodied an advantage for strengthening the Motherland 'and Australia alike. Australians would scorn it if it were to come at the expense of the Motherland The Times hopes that Lord Crewe's remark foreshadows that the affairs of the Dominions are -coming under the immediate cognisance of the Prime Minister..
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Otago Witness, Issue 2923, 23 March 1910, Page 27
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120MOTHERLAND & COLONIES Otago Witness, Issue 2923, 23 March 1910, Page 27
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