IMPERIAL CABINET.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 155, 1 July 1918, Page 4

IMPERIAL CABINET.

A PERMANENT INSTITUTION. FRAMING A CONSTITUTION. LONDON, June 28. Mr. W. F. Massey, interviewed said: "By these meetings the Imperial War Cabinet is practically framing a constitution that will go on improving, developing and 'broadening down from precedent to precedent for centuries to come, thus giving British citizens in the Dominions the Tight to representation in Imperial affaire to which they ire indisputably entitled. They never before had a say, and now for the first time are placed on an equality with the United Kingdom. Aβ the sittings continue the possibilities of improvement will be taken advantage of. There ie no doubt in my mind that when the war ends the Imperial Cabinet will continue. I believe arrangements will be made for annual sessions. I think fnft principal Dominions will have Resident Ministers here, sitting as members of the Imperial Cabinet. New Zealand has not considered the question of having a Minister here for the duration of the "vvar, as Canada has. and as is suggested Australia may do. The duties of a Resident Minister wourd be more political than commercial. The High ■ Commissioner would doubtless remain on the representative side of the business. It is essential that the political representative should be a member of the Government of the Dominion he represents. So far as I am able to judge, British Ministers and leading statesmen are favourable to my view, and are prepared to allow the Dominions a full say in all Imperial matters. This proposal would not interfere with my conception of Imperial Federation."— (Reuter.)