EMPIRE PRESS

Southland Times, Issue 21099, 3 June 1930, Page 7

EMPIRE PRESS

LONDON CONFERENCE FUNCTIONS IN DELEGATES’ ’ . HONOUR ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, May 31. The fourth Imperial Press Conference opens in London on Monday and will continue throughout June. Apart from the business of the conference the delegates have a programme of receptions and banquets arranged in their honour. After the preliminary session of the conference on Monday at Grosvenor House, there will be a reception by the Lord Mayor of London at the Guildhall, followed by a banquet given in the same building by the British Press, Major Astor, M.P., presiding. On Tuesday the delegates will witness the ceremony of trooping the Colours on the Horse Guards Parade, and will attend a luncheon given by the Empire Parliamentary Association in Westminster Hall, at which the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. E. A. Fitzroy, will preside, supported by the Prime Minister, the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. On Wednesday there will be a visit to Epsom Downs to see the Derby run. Later there will be an opportunity for the delegates to attend Ascot races, one of the biggest social events of the season. The King and Queen will receive the visitors at Buckingham Palace on June 24. On June 26 the delegates will visit Portsmouth to witness a naval demonstration, and on June 2S they will see a display by the Royal Air Force at Hendon. In the course of the month they will inspect the offices of metropolitan and provincial newspapers. Visits will be paid to Oxford, Edinburgh and Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon. Tn regard to actual work, important matters of an inter-Imperial aspect will occupy the conference. They will include questions of a reduction in cable and wireless rates and improved facilities of communication and fuller publication of dominion news in the British Press. DEATH OF AUSTRALIAN DELEGATE. (Rec. 9.20 p.m.) Sydney, June 2. The death is announced of Mr. J. E. Davidson, managing director of the News and Mail, Adelaide, also the Daily News, Perth, and other journals at the age of 60. His death occurred in London, where Mr. Davidson was attending the Empire Press Conference.