HOUSE OF LORDS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1925, Page 2

HOUSE OF LORDS.

[ Australia A* X.Z. Cable Asset ia l ion. ] 15A BFOITt’S NEW COMMITTEE. LONDON. .Him* in the House (,f Lards, Lord Balfour, explaining the purposes of the neu Dominions Civil Research Committee. said it was not similar to an industrial research or a medical n search committee. Its whole analogy in* with it- parent, the Committee of Imperial Defence, and it. no more deserved the description of a research committee than did its parent. The new committee would not substantially modify the existing system of admi ui.-t rati on. Lord Balfour added there was no natural method v herein* the Dominions could call to counsel at their desire if a question wherein they were specially interested were raised, apart from the elaborate machinery of the Tnijierial Conference with its attendant inconvenience to (Overseas statement. The new Committee would enable all dominions to send a representative with the consent of the British Prime Minister to explain his Government’s view on any particular subject and the best moth G whereby the joint efforts of the members of the empire may attain satisfactory results. The new commute ■ would diminish the friction between the Departments. He emphasised that these Committees’ powers were purely advisory to the Cabinet.