EMPIRE UNITY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11935, 24 March 1914, Page 4

EMPIRE UNITY.

At a gathering of the Anglo-Saxon Club, held in his honour, the High Commissioner for New Zealand (Mr Thos. Mackenzie) made some interesting remarks on the subject of Empire unity. There Avere some thinkers in the Old Country, he observed, avlio believed that our Empire had grown too large, and they quoted ancient authorities in support of that contention. It was not his wish to deal with that aspect: they had now the responsibility of Empire, and it was their duty to carry out that which is necessary for its preservation. "We must stand together." Such visits as those recently paid to the Dominions by members of the British Parliamentary party he thought would do much to remove misunderstandings and wrong conceptions. They had reached a stage in the development of the Empire when neAV provisions must be made to meet enlarging conditions. After referring to the utterances of various British statesmen, Mr Mackenzie concluded: "All these deliverances point to the necessity for something being done to Aveld more iirmiy together the A'arious interests which are common to the whole, and to give to local authorities extended powers to control purely local or domestic affairs. When this is accomplished, then I believe that, in the words of the Anglo-Saxon Club's policy, much will have been done 'to bring and bind together the many brunches of the English-speaking peoples. 7 "