EMPIRE CO-OPERATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 5

EMPIRE CO-OPERATION

NAVY AS EXAMPLE NEED FOR UNDERSTANDING (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. ,“I think that relations between our two Dominions and the Mother Country in regard to naval matters are an example of Empire co-operation which might welTserve as a guide in any efforts to strengthen the link which binds together the peoples, with common ideals, constituting the British commonwealth of nations,” was an expression of opinion given by Rear-Admiral R. C. Dalglish at a luncheon tendered to him by the New Zealand Club yesterday. “Ignorance and lack of understanding,” said Admiral Dalglish, ‘‘are the only dangers in the path of perfect cooperation. One might, therefore, well repeat to-day the advice on British citizenship given by Mr. Stanley Baldwin in his Empire Day speech a few years ago—‘know your own Empire.’ ‘‘Our cruise in these waters has provided a number of us with an opportunity of visiting New Zealand for the first time, and has helped us to know New Zealand. In addition to meeting your own people, it has allowed my officers and men to meet the New Zealand Division at naval exercises, competitive games, and in recreation. All are for our mutual benefit, and my officers, and I are much impressed by the efficiency and keenness of the New Zealand Division ”