OTTAWA DELEGATES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1932, Page 5

OTTAWA DELEGATES

COATES UNCERTAIN _/ PARTY LEAVES ON JUNE 28. W- _ (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) V WELLINGTON, June 1(3. Tlie New Zealand -Delegation to 'die Imperial Economic Commence at,!Ottawa will kave Wellington at thii ! eiiu of next week to make tlie- - latent steamer connection at Auckland for Vancouver. .■

It .is understood that the preparation of a policy to be presented at the Ottawa Conference on behalf of New Zealand is almost completed, only final touches remaining to be added. The official delegation will probably leave for Auckand on the evening of Sunday 2Gth June. They go by the Aorangi, which is scheduled to leave for Vancouver on Tuesday 28th June. Mr Coates said co-day matters .pertaining to the Ottawa Conference would be discussed at a meeting cf Cabinet to-morrow. .H# was unable to make-any statement yet as to whether or ! not he would' be a member of the delegation. 1 -

AGENDA STILL INCOMPLETE • V ' V- -GTTAWA, June 15. The lagbnda for the Imperial Conference will not bo< completed for some time. Consequently it will "not be available for the discussion on the Conference in the British House of Commons on Friday. While the main lines of the programme are pretty well agreed upon, there still are details to be worked out, and additions to the draft agenda to be made. Communications have been forwarded to the Dominions, but replies have not been received from all of them. BRITISH TIMBER DELEGATION LONDON, June 16. “The Times,” in an editorial, urges the British- "timber traders to send their own committee to advise at the Ottawa Conference, especially with a view to defeating the Russian dumping of paper. “The Times” points out that, in spite of the huge Empire forests, only •six per cent, of the timber that is being imported into the United Kingdom frbm overseas, to an annual value of nearly fifty million pounds, is grown on Empire soil. It seems obvious, it says,' that timber delegates at Ottawa, who no doubt will be appointed will carry greater weight if ✓■'"•they are not only exnert. but official.