EMPIRE POPULATIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18063, 8 March 1923, Page 7

EMPIRE POPULATIONS

FOR THE FUTURE IMPERIAL STATESMEN ARE AGREED. MAKING EXCHANGES. CABLE PRESS ASSN- —COPYRIGHTLondon, March 6. Colonel Amery, presiding at Mr L. Belcher’s lecture on the Dominions’ Representation at the Empire Exhibition, said what the Dominions required most were men, money, and markets. They could get the best-people-in the world from Britain, including women and children. Britain lent the cheapest money in the world, and provided the best markets. Thesu three combined would be the greatest factors in the future development of the Dominions. Their collective effect would elevate the Dominions to an important national status. Britain’s dearest line of policy in the future was Imperial preference in the broadest and most comprehensive sense. Sir Edward Lucas, supporting a veto of thanks said Colonel Amery was the first Imperial statesman to realise that migration meant not emigration but readjustment of the Empire’s population.

Mr A. H. Ashbolfc predicted that the Empire Settlement Act, and also the work of the Overseas Settlement Committee would become historical. Mr L. Belcher dealt seriatim with' the Dominions. Ho described eacn eulogistically. He emphasised New Zealand’s scenery, dairying and meat industries. Illustrating New Zealand’s reputation for meat, he stated that immensely more Canterbury lamb was sold, in England than ever came from New Zealand. He described Australia’s irrigation schemes as among the greatest in the world.—A‘. and N.Z. Cable.