SIR JAMES ALLEN’S IDEAL

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1924, Page 2

SIR JAMES ALLEN’S IDEAL

[ H hut tilts Telegrams.] LONDON, dune If Speaking at a lunch in the New Zealand .section at Wembley, Sir dames Allen said the position in regard to tariff preference resolutions had caused general disappoint meat in the Dominions and colonies, while there was, lie asserted, grave unrest in New Zealand and in Australia as the result of the abandonment of the Singapore Naval Base scheme. He urged the desirability of removing a defect in the constitution of the Imperial Conference by securing that a Prime Minister and other delegates represented their Parliament and the it hole of their people. There seemed to he no reason why, after discussion in Parliament or between the leaders of parties, the representatives at the Imperial Conference should not he placed in a position equally as strong as were the representatives in the War Cabinet, lie also advocated the pro-vi-ioti of better liaison machinery, by appointing a High Commissioner to receive and give information to the Prime M.ini-tcr or Foreign Office, and lo ensure the rapid transmission of information and advice to his Government. LONDON, June 12 Speaking at a dinner tendered to him hv a number ot prominent Australians, Sir Robert Horne paid a tribute to Mr W. Al. Hughes (ex-Pre-

mier) as a protagonist of lmjierial trade. Personally he Horne) was neither it protectionist nor free trader, hut simt.fy a busme-s man, hut lie wondered how anyone could he so fool-i-h as to destroy preference. PRESS COMMENT. LONDON. June 12 The "Moruing Post." commenting on what it term- Sir .las. Allen’s remarkable. plain -pokeu speech, says — "Between ihcm. Mr Snowden and Mr .MacDonald have sickened the Dominions of conferring together, for where is the sense of coming from the world’s ends to investigate and settle questions of policy, if the whole work is to he np»el beeail-e there is n change of (loverlimont f ”