EMPIRE PARLIAMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1926, Page 10

EMPIRE PARLIAMENTS

AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE

ITINERARY OF TOUR

FORTY-TWO DELEGATES,

(From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, 3rd September. Forty-two delegates representing nine Parliaments of the British Empire outside Australia will arrive in the Commonwealth this month to attend conferences of the Empire Parliamentary Association. In fact, a few days after this appears in print the United Kingdom, Irish Free State, Canadian, and Newfoundland delegations will arrive at Auckland aboard the Aorangi, en route for Sydney. About tho same time delegates from South Africa, India, Southern Rhodesia, and Malta will arrive at the eastern gate of this continent. New Zealand's four delegates—Messrs. John Barr, M.L.C., and J. S. Dickson, W. A. Veitch, and M. J. Savage, M.P. 's—will accompany the Aorangi party from Auckland to Sydney. Committees in the various Australian States have arranged tho details of the tour. As far as possible delegates will be given an opportunity of seeing the country and its migration possibilities, as they are studying the scientific ro-: distribution of the population of the Empire. After the Aorangi party lands at Sydney, it will be given a civic reception. In the afternoon a visit will be paid to Sydney's famous zoological gardens at Taronga Park, and in the evening the delegates will bo entertained at a Commonwealth Government dinner. Next day, they will leave by train for Brisbane and spend a fortnight in Queensland. The South African and Indian delegates will join the main party in the northern State. On 4th October a return will be made to New South Wales, where the industries of the North Coast and Newcastle will be inspected on the way to Sydney. The visitors will attend race-meetings at Randwick, motor to famous beauty spots, visit the South Coast, and be entertained at banquets and socials. Then will follow one of the most important functions of the tour. At Canberra, the new Federal capital, on, 11th October, the delegates will gather and after an inspection of Parliament House, the Marquis of Salisbury, head of the British delegation, will formally hand over to the Commonwealth the new Speaker's Chair, a replica of that in the British House of Commons,, made of timber from the historic Westminster Hall and Nelson's flagship, the Victory. Two days will be spent in inspecting the Federal territory and the Duntroon Military College. A visit to Burrinjuck dam and a view of shearing and farm operations will complete the programme in this State. Arriving at Melbourne on 15th October, the delegates will tour a greater portion of Victoria in the Reso train, which makeß systematic tours of the country demonstrating methods of better farming. Many of the important provincial towns will be visited, and the tourists will also watch the running of the Caulfield Cup on 16th October. Tasmania will be visited from 20th October to 27th October. On the latter date there will be a joint meeting with Commonwealth and State members of the Empire Parliamentary Association and dinner with these members at Federal Parliament House. There will follow further tours of the State by the Rcso train and motorcars, including an inspection of the Victorian electricity works on the brown coal field at Yalourn. Since the delegates will bo present in Melbourne on the first Tuesday in November, they must perfoce be guests of the Victoria Eacing Club at Flemington for Australia's principal Turf event, the race for the Melbourne Cup. . Tho party will leave the following day, 3rd November, for Adelaide. The South Australian programme includes a tour of wine-gvowing districts, the irrigation settlements on the River Murray, ana Port Pirie. The delegates will leave for Western Australia by the transcontinental express, and when they embark at Fremantle towards the end of November they will have seen more of the Commonwealth than most Australians are ever likely to see.