IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1930, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

AWAITED WITH KEEN INTEREST

(Official Wireless.) (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 2. ‘ The opening of the Imperial Conference, width will assemble at London next week is awaited with keen interest. It is anticipated the most important discussions will be those dealing with economic questions, and their range will be of the widest character. TI.Dy will embrace tariff changes and the extent and. (effect of inter-imperial tariff preferences, bulk qmrehase, agricultural and industrial research and Empire transport ,and communications, Lull tiding shipping, aviation, cables and wireless,’’ said the Secretary for Dominions. Mr ,J H. Thomas, who referred to tlie complex problems before the Conference in a speech at the Wool Research Conference in London to-day. He added: “There never was an Imperial Conference held in more difficult circumstances, but equally there nevei was a conference that was more necessary. Each constituent part oi the Empire is faced with its own domestic and economic problems. We in the Old Country are passing through a period unexampled in history. il have confidence, however, that the old spirit of grit and determination, that saw the country through many of the difficulties it has passed, will pull us through.' At .the Imperial Conference we shall sit down not with a desire to think for ourselves alone but with the single minded desire to see how we can combine our brains and energies to make the best use of the Empire with its unlimited potentialities and possibilities for the common good of all.” OPENING DELAYED. ■ . I RUGBY, Sept. 22. It is officially announced that as the Prime Minister of Canada will not !be able to reach London until September 30th, the opening meeting of the Imperial Conference has been deferred until October Ist.