PRESSMEN IN LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 988, 3 June 1930, Page 9

PRESSMEN IN LONDON

SOCIAL ROUND TO RELIEVE CONFERENCE DUTIES TO VISIT THE PALACE Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. After a preliminary session of the Empire Press Conference at Grosvenor House today there will be a reception by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir William Waterlow, at Guildhall, followed by a banquet to be given in the same building by the British Press. Major J. J. Astor, M.P., will preside. On Tuesday (King’s Birthday) the delegates will witness the trooping of the colours at the Horse Guards Parade and attend a luncheon to be given by the Empire Parliamentary Association in Westminster Hall, at which the Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain E. A. Fitzroy, will preside, supported by the Prime Minister, Mr. MacDonald, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Sankey, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip Snowden. TO VISIT THE DERBY On Wednesday the delegates will visit Epsom Downs to see the Derby run. Later there will be an opportunity for them to attend the Ascot races —one of the most important social events of the season. The King and Queen will receive the visitors at Buckingham Palace on June 24, and two days later the delegates will visit Portsmouth to witness a naval demonstration. On June 28 they will see a display by the Royal Air Force at Hendon. In the course of the month the visitors will inspect the offices of metropolitan and provincial newspapers. Visits will also be paid to Oxford, Edinburgh and Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon. Important matters of inter-imperial aspect will occupy the conference. These will include the questions of a reduction in cable and wireless rates, improved facilities for communication and fuller publication of Dominions news in the British Press. Altogether there are three women delegates, Misses Haig (Canada), Bell (India), and Moseley (Bahamas).