LEAGUE BUDGET TOO BIG
COMPLAINTS AT GENEVA CHORUS OF DEMANDS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service)GENEVA, Tuesday. M. Baillieu (France) had a lengthy conference with British financial experts with a view to organising a combined campaign to reduce the evergrowing budget of the League, which is now £1,080,000. Many of the items are regarded as being quite outside the League’s domain. For example, research into the habits of dee-sea fish, also the ramifications of the International Labour Office, which smack of a political rather than an international character. Directly the session of the Fourth Commission was opened there was a chorus of demands to cut the budget, which shows an increase of £ 60,000 on that of last year and £190,000 on that of 1927. The delegates had a tangible subject for discussion in a British motion to refer the budget to a supervisory committee with a request to save at least £40,000.
Mr. G. T. Locker Lampson, British Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, demanded a check in expansion. He emphasised the fatuity of holding conferences on subjects already covered by other international bodies. # lt was wasteful, he said, to hold labour and maritime conferences separately instead of concurrently.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 458, 13 September 1928, Page 9
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