EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPING DOMINION RE. SOURCES. LONDON, July 1 Sir John Ferguson, the financial authority, and a director of Bawra, addressing the Institute of Bankers, said that recently the British banks had sought a broader basis for their activities. If a right direction were given to their relation, ships with the dominion hanks they would contribute greatly towards the building up of Imperial trade. The Empire contained reserves of wealth, sufficient to give every ma , woman, and child a higher standard of life than any other country. The banks could help forward the peopling of the Empire's vast spaces with British stock. It had now become a parrot cry “Find us a Mussolini.” Why not? It ought not to be impossible to find someone capable of carrying oat a great scheme of economic reconstruction within the Empire as an offset to the loss of our foreign markets, — someone, who, by natural affinity, understood the dominions’ political ideas.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 31
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157EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 31
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