OUR PRIME MINISTER IN HIS ELEMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1930, Page 5

OUR PRIME MINISTER IN HIS ELEMENT

(United Press Association—By Electric telegraph—Copyright).

(Received this clay at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 22

“] lmd a thoroughly homelike afternoon at the Dairy Show at Islington,” said the R.t. lion. G. Forbes, ‘‘when 1 stepped down from high politics to the inspection of cattle and produce, I had discussions with fellow farmers about milk yields and butterfat.”

' He was able to renew acquaintance with several members of the party of British fanners who visited New Zealand recently. He was delighted with New Zealand’s cheese successes. THE RAY OF HOPE.

Upon the work of the Graham Committee virtually depends the success or failure of preferential trade, which is the major issue in the minds of Dominion delegate. They exhausted every line of argument and every inducement to clinch existing preferences and gain others, drawing faint encouragement from Mr MacDonald’s assurance that thejdoor is still open, though in the estimation of the Australians the chink of light coming through is a mere pin point rav. IMMIGRATION BARRED.

The Overseas Settlement Committee held its first meeting this afternoon wh'en it heard depressing stories of all the Dominion’s inability, owing to economic stress, to open their doors to British migrants