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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19802, 18 May 1934, Page 2

“Great Britain and Australia appeared to be the only two countries that had faced the world crisis with rigid economy and great national sacrifice.” This was the opinion of Mr A. Parkhill, Postmaster-General in the Australian’ Federal Cabinet, who is passing through Auckland on his way back from the Old Country. “It is only within the British Empire that any semblance of representative government continues to exist,” he said. “The racial and cultural variations are the very things in the world which make life worth living," declared Bishop West-Watson at a meeting of the League of Nations Union, in Christchurch on Wednesday. “These things we want to keep hr an international world. Who would like to hear the subtle difference of dialect merged? Who would like to hear the Yorkshireman and the Cockney speaking the same tongue?” he asked. “What about the Scotsman?” a member of the audience asked. “The Scotsman’s tongue is inviolable,” said the Bishop.