MR. MASSEY.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1921, Page 5

MR. MASSEY.

WOOL PROFITS QUESTION. STATUS OF THE DOMINION. QUESTION FOR THE CONFERENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 3, 8.8 p.m. London, June 2. Mr. Massey is negotiating in regard to the wool difficulty and New Zealand’s share of the profits. The matter revolves round the interpretation of the agreement with the Imperial authorities and the negotiations are likely to occupy several weeks. Mr. Massey has also had a conversation with officials on the question of New Zealand’s share "of the reparation payments.

Mr. Massey is at present disinclined to comment on Professor Hall’s contention in regard to the definition of the Dominion’s' status Until the definitions of various overseas States have been laid before the Imperial Conference, which is the properi place to thrash out the whole subject. He strongly realises the value of the position gained through the war by the admission of overseas representatives to the Imperial Cabinet, and any attempt to secure a more rigid definition of the status would result in diminished elasticity between the various units of the Empire, and they might even lose what they had already gained and be thrown back to the French Conference days, which were more or less of an academic character.

Mr. Massey dines vyith Mr. Lloyd George to-night and attends the Rhodes Scholars’ dinner at Oxford on the 11th. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.