EMPIRE NEEDS AND IDEALS

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1929, Page 11

EMPIRE NEEDS AND IDEALS

ADDRESS BY PREMIER OF N.S.W.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Received July 24, 8.5 p.m.

United Service. Vancouver, July 23. “Tho British Empire represents an effort to unite for a common purpose races which are scattered all over the world, whose people are of different creed, colour and traditions,” said the Hon. T. R. Bavin, Premier of New South Wales, when addressing the Canadian Club on Tuesday evening. “It is,” he proceeded, “an effort to combine two apparently contradictory ideas, the idea of perfect individual liberty united to a single Empire purpose for the good of the Empire and the world. We who compose the nations of the Empire can live a fuller and more effective life as members of the Empire than we could if out of it.”

The problem common to the nations of tho Empire was the necessity for a more efficient defence system, with a more equitable division of its cost. The formulation of a real and effective Empire policy was one of the great needs, and to promote the formulation of such a policy Mr. Bavin suggested more frequent and effective consultations among representatives of the different parts of the Empire.