A GREAT FIRM.
DUKE’S VIEW OF EMPIRE. LESSON DF WEMBLEY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Sydney “ Suu ” Cable. (Received May 1, 9 a.m.) LONDON. April 30. The Duke of York, presiding at the exhibition commissioner's luncheon to fesie British overseas Press, described Wembley as a great university of tlie greatest human organisation of all time. The 1925 exhibition had shown fresh aspects of Imperial life, and he was confident of its overwhelming success. The Empire, the Duke said, was a great firm, of which the heads should consult as often as possible. The exhibition would prove the best form of business consultation. Wembley was designed to enable Britain to always possess some kind of permanent nucleus of Imperial education. He did nob suggest an annual full-dress Empire exhibition, as Wembley would close definitely in 1925, but more data would then be available as to the best moans of establishing ax (permanent common centre to study the problems of Empire development. Mr J. H. Thomas, in proposing the Press, said, “The Empire is passing through transition stages and God what the future will be. Those like myself who are in closest contact with the problems and difficulties, are more apprehensible than anyone
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19250501.2.72
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 17526, 1 May 1925, Page 7
Word Count
200A GREAT FIRM. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17526, 1 May 1925, Page 7
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in