"WHEN ARE YOU GOING AWAY?"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 61, 6 December 1918, Page 6

"WHEN ARE YOU GOING AWAY?"

THE DELEGATES TO PEACE CONFERENCE. "When'are you going i "ray?". Ju , nbont tho first jibe that, used to bo flung at tho new recruit entering camp was this question, always in .nocking tones, and most often it came from recruits about two months in uniform. U was just as much in' joke as m earnest that Mr. Craigie addressed the same ouesf.ion. in rather different terms, to the Prime Minister in the House of liepreventatives yesterday. Mr Massey ?nid that his collengue nml himself hoped to bo in Ensland in time t« takn part in the. very important deliberation* that-would take pace before' the signing of the Peace Treaty representatives of Canada and Australia were p|- nre»"iit. in Ensrland. i'.nd it was a pity that the New Zealand delates were v noble to be there now. Even, yet he oonld not. say by what thev would, have to travel. When they did ■:«t out thev wished to get thrniwh by ihe clwrtest rout", and the Imperial Government was making nrnwroments for their They hoped to get away bv the »nd of next week. ' Mr. Tsitt: Do you want any additional secretaries? , Mr Jfnswv: J have had enplicsition' from'some hundreds of Rentlemer.—and to act as secretaries and tvnists. , ..... ' On<> or two mpmVrs liv mterinotio" rai«»'l the oue*tinn "f ren'-oc»»tat.ion of tbo Native me.« the (Wor°nce. Mr. M„s.«v tmiVwl that it did not s»«m to 1,0 to hnv» n ronre?«ntativp of the Maori "en at <V ""eice Confor»n<">. but he hoD-d thet *hn Native rn"» would be represented nt Hie new colobrat'ons.