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Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1927, Page 2

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t lAIPERIAL CONTROL. CANADA’S ATTITUDE. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] OTTAWA, AI arch 29. “Imperial control lias given place to ‘ equality of status and whole-hearted co-operation,” said, the Canadian Premier, Air Alackenzie King, in Parliament, when giving an account of the Imperial Conference. 1 The Premier added ill respect of dc-feT-ve : “I mav say that no commitmens were made, nor wore there any requests in that direction. Each Dominion is felt to determine what its defence ivill he, and the extent to which it will co-operate with Britain and the sister Dominions.” Regarding the matter of constitutional status, the Premier said that there were greater differences as between the Dominions themselves in their view, as than between the view of Canada and that of the Arotherhuid. The Dominions had started out in a position of colonial subordination, hut a change had since come about until that conception of things was no longei obtained. OTTAWA, March 30. During the debate in tbe Canadian House of Commons, on the Imperial Conference, on Tuesday, Air Guthrie (Leader of the Conservative Party! moved an amendment declaring that it was not desirable that the House he deemed tacitly to have acquiesced in the recommendations and declaration of the Imperial Conference, and that they he not binding on the Parliament of Canada until they are approved by a formal resolution of the Canadian House of Commons; and that untif then, the Canadian Government ho not deemed authorised to carry into effect the recommendations contained in the report of the Imperial Conference Committee oil Inter-Imperial Regulations. This report, Air Guthrie said, had opened the door to possibilities which might end in disaster. He said that so veiled and diversified had lieen the statements of those who had participated in the Imperial Conference as to what had actually been clone, that the public was not at all clear as to what had been accomplished. He referred to statements that had been made by Afr Bruce, the Prime Afinister of Australia ; by Air Alackenzie King. Prime Afinister of Canada; and by Afr Hertzog, the Prime Minister of South Africa. The Prime Afinister (AH AfacKenzie King )reviewed the work of the Conference. He said that there the effort made was not to discover points of difference, hut to find points of agree- , merit.