NEW ZEALAND DELEGATES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 390, 23 March 1937, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND DELEGATES

TO EMPIRE CONFERENCE. Mr. G. C. Rodda Included. Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, March 22. Mr G. C. Rodda, Secretary to the Treasury, will be a member of the New Zealand delegation to the Imperial Conference. The Prime Minister, Mr M. J. Savage, said to-night that in view of the fact that finance would largely enter into the discussions at the conference, it had (been arranged for Mr Rodda to be added to the delegation. Mr Rodda will accompany Mr Savage and his party on the Arawa, sailing from Wellington at 10 p.m. next Saturday.

The New Zealand delegation to the Coronation and the conference will be Mr Savage, Mr C. A. Berendsen, permanent head of the Prime Minister’s Department, Mr C. A. Jeffery, Clerk of the Executive Council and chief privlate secretary to the Prime Minister, and Mr Rodda. While in London Mr Savage will have associat--3d with him (Tie High Commissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan, and Hon. W. Nash. The Minister of Labour, Hon. H. T. Armstrong, who will leave Wellington for Europe on April 6, travelling via Australia and Mediterranean ports to Naples, where he will .travel by train through Rome, northern Italy and France to Calais and thence to Dover, will reach London on May 11, the lay before the Coronation.