MINISTER’S MISSION TO GENEVA

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 10

MINISTER’S MISSION TO GENEVA

Departure From Auckland On April 3 VISITS TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA The Minister of Lands, Mr. Langstone, who has been appointed by Cabinet to represent the Government at the International Labour Conference in Geneva this year, has arranged to sail from Auckland by the Mariposa for San Francisco on April 3. He will be accompanied by the chief clerk and Deputy registrar of industrial unions, Mr. G. M. F. Jackson. The conference will open on June 8, and will last for about three weeks.

After visiting the United States of America, Mr. Langstone will travel through Canada before crossing the Atlantic to England. He intends to visit the Golden Gate Exposition, in San Francisco and the World Fair in New York. The New Zealand Government has courts at each of these exhibitions, and as Minister in Charge of Tourist and Publicity Mr. Langstone has a particular interest in them. During Mr. Langstone’s absence from the Dominion the departments under his control will be administered by other Ministers. The reallocation of the portfolios involved will be announced by the Prime Minister, Mr. Savage. These include the Lands and Survey Department, State Forest Service, Tourist and Publicity Department, and Valuation Department. Mr. Langstone has also been acting-Minis-ter of External Affairs and actingNative Minister, and these two portfolios will also require reallocation.