AUSTRALIA AND EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1926, Page 7

AUSTRALIA AND EMPIRE.

UNITY AND DEVELOPMENT. FEDERAL PREMIERS VIEWS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyrijhi. Received Sept. 2, 5.5 p.m. Melbourne, Sept. 2. Mr. S. M. Bruce, Federal Premier, in his final address in support of the referenda proposals prior to hie departure for London, referred to hie mission to the Imperial Conference. He said he proposed in the name of th® people of Australia to make the first plank of his policy in London that Australia, shall remain an integral part of the great world-wide British nation. Mr. Bruce enlarged upon the necessity of Empire union and the development of the commonwealth. He declared that the public opinion of the world in years to come would not tolerate what will assuredly seem to the world a dog in the manger policy. The only way to avoid such judgment was to convince other nations beyond doubt that there was only one people capable of building up a great prosperous national life in this continent, and that is rhe Australians themselves. They bad to prove themselves a worthy component part of the Empire.