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Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1923, Page 9

[ “Clear out of Europe and develop the | Empire,'’ was the advice given recently I in England by Lord Beaverbrook. “Bri- : tish merchants of the school stand j aghast a' this proposal.’’ states a writer i in the Australian Trade Journal. “They are blind to the fftet that the war shat- ' tered European markets. They cling to i the hope that their pre-war European ; connections will be resumed. It reminds i us of the folly of those who insisted on ; rebuilding London on the old lipes after J the sreat fire 250 years ago. in defiance 1 of Christopher Wren, who had plans for i constnicting an entirely new city. The I same lack of imagination exists to-day. I Our ancestors failed to realise the evils ’ of congestion,and too many of us at the { present time .seem equally unable to grasp the simple fact that our very existence depends upon rapid expansion. This is only possible within the Empire.”