EMPIRE COMMONWEALTH
DELATIONS OF THE I'AIITS. The following question was asked by Sir John Sinclair in the Legislative Council yesterday: "Whether, before any appointments are made of representatives lo attend the special Imperial Comerence hereafter referred to, an opportunity will be given to both Houses of Parliament to consider the question of tne readjustment of the constitutional relations of the component parts of our- national commonwealth, that question having been postponed by the Imperial War Cabinet in 11)17, for consideration by a diweiul Imperial Conference to be held as soon as possible after the cessation of hostilities."
Sir Francis Hell (Attorney-General) replied that, in the present opinion of the Government, preliminary debates in the several Parliaments of the empire upun tlio subject referred io would tend to hamper rather than to promote the objects that should be held in view by those participating in such a conference as that mentioned above. Thti Government believed that several Parliaments would be in a better-position to discuss the scmit questions involved, after those ouestions had been clearly defined and their difficulties considered by an Imperial Conference.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 19, 17 October 1919, Page 7
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183EMPIRE COMMONWEALTH Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 19, 17 October 1919, Page 7
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