“A SUNNY FUTURE.”

Wairarapa Age, 24 December 1926, Page 5

“A SUNNY FUTURE.”

MR. BBUCE ON EMPIRE PROSPECTS.

ERA Ol 1 CO-OPERATION,

LONDON, December 22.

Mr. and Mrs Bruce arrived at Waterloo Station ten minutes before the departure of the boat train. They spent the time chatting gaily with numerous friends and officials, including Colonel de Satge, representing the Prime Minister, Mr. Amery, and others.

Mr. Bruce, interviewed, said that he was taking to Australia the happiest possible recollections of his visit. There was one tinge of regret in that ho was leaving before the Christmas festival. He would have liked to have remained for a real old-fashioned snowy Christmas, which appears likely. “Now that I am returning to my sunshiny country,” he said, “I think tho best Christmas wish is ‘A sunny future for the Empire.’ I am confident that it will come, for I am filled with optimism as I look back at what was accomplished at the Imperial Conference. The outcome of that momentous, yet happy gathering, is a new spirit of co-operation. It has dispelled all doubts and suspicions existing in some people’s minds as to the opening of a new era for the British Empire in which the great self-governing Dominions while continuing to work out their own great individual problems, will co-operate in a spirit of unity for the further progress of the Empire as a whole. I wholeheartedly appreciate the kindness, courtesy, and hospitality shown not only by the heads of the country but the people of Britain.”— (A. and N.Z.).