We wish all success to the Empire Parliamentary Association and
good results to the tour of a number of members which began last week. The Chairman, Lord Salisbury, had already started ahead. Repre- sentatives of Great Britain and'the Irish Free State left London for Canada where Canadian. and Newfoundland members will join the party and cross the Pacific to Australia. There they expect to meet a number of So'uth Africans. The delegates hope to spend some time in each Australian State and to visit the new Common- wealth capital, Canberra,, where they will hand over a replica of the Speaker's Chair at Westminster. The Association, which does good work here by printing (though not publishhig) their periodical Reports on Foreign Affaiis, can do much service to the Empire and to democratic goVernment by Mingling members of all parties from each Parliament and exchanging ideas between the Mother Country and the Dominions.
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