IMPERIAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20105, 8 December 1930, Page 11

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES.

SEND-OFF TO NEW ZEALAND PARTY. (Received December 7tli, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 6. A crowd of New Zealanders and others, led by Sir Thomas Wilford, cheered thrice three times as the Kt. Hon. G. W. Forbes and Mrs Forbes, Sir Thomas and Lady Sidey, and their staff departed for France from Victoria Station. Those present included Mr J. H. Thomas, Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Harry Batterbee, Sir Edward Harding, Lieu-tenant-Colonel de Satge, and Mr V in " cent, representing Air Ramsay MaoDonald. Mr Forbes will visit the battlefields and Paris, catching the Ormonde at Toulon. THE RT. HON. G. W. FORBES'S MESSAGE. (CHITED FP.E3B ASSOCIATION —ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, December 5. The Bt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, on his final day of farewells, called on Mr Kamsay Mac Donald, placed a wreath on the Westminster Abbey tablet to the Empire's million dead, and interviewed Sir Ernest Harvey, DeputyGovernor of the Bank of England. Mr Forbes, in a final statement, paid a tribute to the hospitality shown him throughout Great Britain and Ireland. He said though the Imperial Conference decisions had not gone as far as he had hoped, some important decisions were reached on many undecided questions. He considered the personal contacts made with public and commercial leaders most valuable. New Zealand sold the bulk of her products to Great Britain, and, as a matter of sentiment, gave her preference th.-ough Customs, and desired the fullest measure of preference in return. He highly appreciated the goodwill New Zealand and her products enjoyed in Great Britain.