N.Z. DELEGATION

Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1932, Page 5

N.Z. DELEGATION

TO GO TO OTTAWA

ONE MINISTER ENOUGH

By Telegraph—Per Presi Association )

NELSON, May 31

Mr H. Atmore, 31. P., lias forwarded a letter to the Prime, Minister, protesting against three of the Ministers proceeding to Ottawa, and suggesting that the- Prime Minister should be the sole. Ministerial representative, with Mr A. N. Fie.d, as financial adviser, oil the grounds of economy, and also on tli 0 grounds that, as an adviser, one is required who is in full sympathy witn the. /orthodox, but entirely ■necessary, proposals advocated by Professors Cassel of Sweden and Soddy of Oxford. . ;V

MR FORBES AND AIR COATES

SHOULD STAND BY JOBS

WELLINGTON, May 31

The Council of the Chamber of Commerce this evening passed a resolution expressing the opinion that only the Minister of Finance, the. Comptroller of'Customs and the Secretary to the Treasury should be sent to- the Empire Economic Conference at Ottawa, and that -the Prime Minister and the Minliter of Employment should stand by jtheir jobs. The Council deprecated the recogni* I tion that was apparently being given ’to’ sectional interests in connection ' with the conference.

CURRENCY QUESTION,

OTTAWA, May 30. ' A .Saskatoon message states that the gold standard abandonment recommended by the Alberta United Farmers is also desired by the Saskatchewan United Farmers of Canada, Mr Frank Eliason (secretary) declares that inflation, or counter-deflation, would be of great advantage. The Government should take the issuance l of currency entirely in its own hands.