HOLIDAY WEEK-END

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 289, 1 August 1932, Page 5

HOLIDAY WEEK-END

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MR. STEWART CELEBRATES ' BIRTHDAY, MR COATES PLAYS TENNIS LOG CABIN PARTY ;

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

Rec. July 31, 5.5 p.m. OTTAWA, Saturday. Seeing that the conference made surprislng progress during the first week, the delegates may well bie pardoned for regarding with equanimity relief arrangements for three lays' holiday- next week-end. Next Monday will be a public .holiday, corresponding with the August bank holiday^ wKile the delegates will have the following Friday, Saturday and Sunday off. Most of the delegates have been invited to country clubs. A notable 'party of 70 guests will go to the luxurious log cabin ealled Lucerfe, which is a country club on a millionaire basis, midway between Ottawa and Montreal. The club has facilities for golf, tennis, riding and swimming. Mr. J. H. Thomas, who visited his son's home at Montreal last week-end to see a new grandson, described him as "right up to sample." The delegates attended a gala concert by all-Ca-nadian artists. The items included Alfred Hill's poi songs and some of Percy Grainger's folk songs. Two special trains will take the delegates to Niagara on August 4, proeeeding on to the ceremonial opening of the Welland Canal. This is the great scheme for the expansion of the St. Lawrence waterway into the Great Lakes, which America and Canada have jointly agreed to make over a period of ten years, but it is uncertain whether Congress will approve it for economic reasons. Newspapers, which gave prominence to the ejection of the Washington war ; veterans, made no reference to the Canadian unemployed, the question of which is acute. The threatened unemployed demonstration and procession converging on Ottawa, did not eventuate, police patrols preventing the marchers from iuri me city. Mr. J. G. Coates, who presented the - . -W Zealand case in an able manner, is now indulging in tennis, and Mrs Coates is proving a most popular hostess. Mr. Downie Stewart, who celebrated his fifty-third birthday yesterday, received many presentations and congratulations. He is actively particiating in all conference business, giving a strong lead as chairman of the Customs Committee. Miss Stewart is constantly and assiduously attentive to his welfare. There is a growing feeling in Canadian circles that Great Britain is favourably disposed to grant preferences as to wheat, rneat, and other primary products. One Ottawa journal |says that Lord Hailsham is talking nonsenss when he predicts the breaking up of the Empire in his lifetime in the event of failure of the conference. It points out that the Empire has faced many difficulties and has survived many shocks. It must be an onerous task for Mr. S. M. Bruce, ^r. Stanley Baldwin and . Mr. R. B. Bennett to find themse' , compelled to make demand s when they would much rather offer mutual aid, but so long as they regard themselves . as agents of tariff nationalism, they could do little else. Canada and South Africa are holding preliminary discxissions as to the possibility of a trade treaty similar : to those with Australia and New Zealand.