IMPERIAL INTERESTS AT PARIS CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2759, 1 May 1916, Page 6

IMPERIAL INTERESTS AT PARIS CONFERENCE

STATEMENT BY - MR. BONAR DAW. By Telesrapli—Press Association—Copyright Paris, April 28. Mr. Bonar Law, in an interview in the Paris "Journal," said that tho British delegates to the Economic Conferonce were 'prepared to discuss frankly the economic situation, with a view to formulating a programme. acceptable to the whole Empire. Ho hoped that France would realise the difficulties confronting the British delegates, who had to represent, besides England, tho varying interests of the Dominions. Therefore the, delegates propose chiefly to deliberate and take notes of suggestions, which will subsequently be submitted to tho Dominions. It was also desirable to avoid discussions calculated to renew party struggles in England.

POST-WAR EMIGRATION. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S PLEA FOR PRACTICAL BOARD. ■ London, April 28. Sir Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand), in an article in "Reynolds's Newspaper," urges consideration of the question of emigration to the Dominions after tho war. He advocates that a board of practical men, representing business . people, farmers, and labour should be set up to formulate a plan. Ho declares that tho Dominions do not want to deal after the war with Germany, stained by fonl crime against civilisation. LAND FOR SOLDIERS. APPEAL BY SIR RIDER HAGGARD. Sydney, April 29. At a luncheon given by the Colonial Institute, Sir Rider Haggard referred to the urgent necessity of land settlement to. keep the Empire intact. He appealed to Australia to get its share of the immigrants who would bo available after the war, to prevent the United States from mopping them up. MR. HUGHES AT GLASGOW. (Rec. April 30, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 28. . Mr. AV. M. 'Huglieg has made a tour of Glasgow. Ho spoke for an hour at the Chamber of Commerce. 1 Sir Thomas Mackenzie (New Zealand High Commissioner),. following him, said: "Mr. Hughes'fires 'Jack Johnsons' into the old theories." He did not believe that Great Britain had, so degenerated as to extend her trade and •friendship to the murderers of. her Dominions' sons immediately; after, the war was over. There was something more to bo thought of than buying in the cheapest market. Mr. Hughes jeceived the Doctbrship of Laws from the Glasgow University, and returned to Edinburgh in the evening. j