AN IMPERIAL SCHEME.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2577, 4 February 1910, Page 5

AN IMPERIAL SCHEME.

ORIGINAL PLAN TO WELD THE

EMPIRE

United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, Feb. 2.

Sir Reginald Enoch, a traveller, in a paper read at the social of the Society of Arts, an organisation lor the encouragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce, remarked that commerce was insufficient as a means of livelihood for British, nor was it alone an adequate basis for Imperial unity. He recommended every municipality and urban district in the United Kingdom to acquire an area of free land in oversea dominions, to held in perpetuity as a heritage for its-people, developing for them the means of creating new sources of industry and revenue. He argued that valuable material, both in labor and land, was now wasting. An association, of London city men should lead the way to secure a large area of colonial land, raise working capital, and form a new and valuable permanent property for the benefit of London.

Air. Killier, a member of the House of Commons, who presided, said the problem deserved the most careful consideration, in view of the great undeveloped resources of the oversea dominions and the distress and poverty in. tlie Motherland’s ehief centres. Sir W. J. Taverner said it would he a wise policy for the Motherland and the dominions to collaborate in peopling various parts. He favored the establishment of an Imperial Council and representation of the colonies iu the House of Lords.

Other speakers doubted whether the colonies would give land, but agreed that the time was ripe for an Imperial Conference on migration within the Empire.