THE CORONATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 223, 3 January 1911, Page 8

THE CORONATION

N'O INVITATION" FOR NEW ZEALAND PARLIAMENTARIANS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christcliurch, January 1. The Prime Minister, interviewed while passing through Christcliurch yesterday, stated tlwt so far no invitation had been received from the Home Government for members of Parliament to attend the Coronation ceremony, and consequently he was not in n position to say what the prospects are of any member of the New Zialnnd House of Representatives visiting England. From private information he lmd received it appeared possible, but by no means certain, that an invitation would come. Personally, he thought it would be a good tiling for some of the people's representatives to be present on an occasion of such historic importance, and to interchange views with representative men at Home on matters equally all'ectJng England end the Dominions beyond we seas. He instanced the troublesome Bd difficult matter affecting the manBig of ships, the intricacies of company appeal settled by the Privy"Couneil, H similar questions as ones that could profitably. "I have held the for years," Sir Joseph Ward pro"that it would be a good thing the various portions of the Empire if Ministers of the Old Land and members of the British Government ■ the day visited distant portions of B> Empire, which are destined in days come to take the position of young Btions. The bond of union with the Old Buntry would be cemented more rapidly Bthe people in the overseas Dominions Bild see and hear His Majesty's advisHe referred to the excellent cf■ts of the Press Conference, and said result thereof throughout the EmH there was in the newspapers more and concentrated work being done interests of the Empire.