EMPIRE MIGRATION

Southland Times, Issue 19771, 20 February 1923, Page 6

EMPIRE MIGRATION

DOMINIONS AND TRADE. SIR JAMES ALLEN'S SPEECH. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). LONDON, February 17. Sir James Allen was the chief guest, at a dinner given by the British Wool Federation at Bradford. Responding to the toast of "the Dominions,” he said that a great responsibility lay upon the AngloSaxon race to see that the Dominions developed not only material resources but traditions of equity, justice and honest trade. He asked, from the point of view of material wealth, where could the Motherland look for better aid and more honest purpose in that aid, than to her own kith and kin beyond the seas. The day might come when the population of Australia and Canada would he as large as that- of Great Britain. In New Zealand there was less rom than in those countries, but there was still room for more of the right type. Men and women, who went with determination, energy, ability and straight forwardness would succeed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. There should be no idea of stifling the development of manufacturing industries in the dominions the thing to do was to fill the dominions with human beings, whose wants could not for many years be supplied by their own factories.