EMPIRE WELFARE
BRITISH PEOPLE ’8 ASTOUNDING INDIFFERENCE. LONDON, Juno 26. In an interview, Mr. James Craige, a member of the New Zealand Leglislative Council, who conferred with prominent Conservative and Liberal statesmen, said that the public’s ignorance of and indifference to the Empire’s welfare were astounding. The mass of people did not realise that the time was. gone when Britain was the only important part of the Empire. British politicians must stir the people’s imagination and educate, their minds to grasp the modern meaning of Empire. The North of England and Scotland showed more interest in the Empire than South of London showed. He attributed this to the feverish rush of London life, in which everybody was I a specialist in his respective calling, with no time to study the. wider interests.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19049, 28 June 1924, Page 15
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