THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1918, Page 2

THE PEACE CONFERENCE.

MR.; MASSE®'WOULD LIKE.;TG BE IN E2sG£ASD NOW.' ; rosa Qi%Earliammitarj; Corresgondent.) Wellington, Dan. 5. "When are -Wew'Healaml'a peace delegates going to leave for the Peace Conference V' asked Mr.. J. Oraigie (Timatu) in the lfonso of Representatives. ■'l can assure4he honorable member I am just as iuixious as 110 is that we Should arrive said the Prime Minister in reply. "Meetings t>f the War Cabinet are being held- now. , Mr. Hughes is there representing Australia, and also, I think, Mr. Cook. Sir Robert Borden and some others are there from Canada. I think it is a pity that Sir Joseph Ward, "and myself are' not there also, font that is not possible." The Prime Minister added that the necessary work of the session had been delayed by the influenza, and it was uncertain even new what steamer the delegates could catch. He and Sir Joseph Ward wanted to get to London by the shortest route. The Imperial authorities were waking the"arrangements, and he believed they would be able to leave New Zealand ibefore the end of next week'. ■ Mr. IJ. M. Isitt (Christdiurch North) : Is an additional secretary wanted? Mr. Massey: I have 'had applications from some hundreds of gentlemen and Mies who are anxious to go as secre-. taries and typists. (Daughter.) When the question' was asked, Mr. Uru and myself were considering the possibility of having the Maori race represented, if not at the Peace Conference, then at the peace celebrations. Answering a further interjection, 'Miv Massey snid he would bo very glad if ;t were possible to take Sir James Carroll Home with him. He would be exteedingly useful and would do to the occasion.