Last Saturday four of the Dominion Prime Ministers, including General
Smuts, took note of the progress which is being made at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. We are very glad to gather from the speeches of the Duke of Devonshire, who presided at the luncheon, and of the Dominion Prime Mini4ters, how strong is the desire on all hands that the Exhibition shall be a really memorable and useful event in our history. When laying, the foundation stone of the South African Pavilion, General Smuts declared that there was no doubt about the future of South Africa. "It is safe." All that was necessary was to move resolutely forward and make up for the time which had been lost. Only now were South Africans in process. of reaching some of the richest parts of South Africa. He had little doubt that the cotton industry of South Africa would soon be greater even than the wool industry. At the Exhibition South Africa was going to show what she could do. She could not, how- ever, do everything of which she was capable unless markets were assured to her. The development of markets within the Empire was essential.
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