LABOUR CONGRESS
TO DISCUSS MERCANTILE MARINE QUESTIONS TWENTY-ONE STATES TO BE REPRESENTED (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyrlirlit London, May 29. The International Labour Office of the League of Nations notifies that twentyone States will attend the conference at Genoa on Juno 15, to discuss matters particularly concerning tho mercantile marine. The official notice specifies a few State which will not atend, as the questions have no interest to them directly, tt singles out the abstention of New Zealand as the most remarkable, although tho Dominion has replied to certain investigatory questions which .were circulated. Tho notice describes the special position obtaining in New Zealand, owing to tho arrangement between the New Zealand ■Seamen's Association and tho Federation of Shipowners, and also other conditions. The Japaneso delegation will bo extraot dinarily large.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn,. Renter. [A .message published yesterday stated that apart from four official delegates, the Japanese mission would consist of (ifty-threo officials and experts. The German and British missions would! each contain eighteen."]
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 211, 1 June 1920, Page 5
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162LABOUR CONGRESS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 211, 1 June 1920, Page 5
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