AMERY'S BUSY DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1926, Page 7

AMERY'S BUSY DAY.

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS. CABLE BOARD DISPUTE. IMPERIAL WIRELESS. (By Caile.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON. February 22. Replying to Mr. P. A. Hurd, member for Devizes, the Et. Hon. L. C. M. S. .Amerv, Secretary for the Dominions, Baid he had not received any official communication from Canada concerning the Pacific cable dispute, but he hoped there TVOiild be a satisfactory settlement Colonel the Rt. Hon. J. C.» Wedgwood, Labour member for Newcastle-under-Lyme, asked: '"In view of the enormous importance of having Imperial high power wireless, will }"ou urge the British representatives ou the Pacific Cable Board to co-operate with Canada in raging provision for wireless in preference to laying a second cable?" Mr. Amery: "Those considerations were reviewed by the board before it decided to lay a second cable." NEW ZEALAND SETTLERS. Mr. H. Day. Labour member for Southwark Central, asked Mr. Amery if, in view of the inadequacy of the Imperial grants to settlers in New Zealand, any action was contemplated to ensure successful settlement. Mr. Amery replied that New Zealand was not willing to enter into a land settlement agreement, therefore the question of settlers' allowances did not arise. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. Answering a query from Sir H. Brittain, Conservative member for Acton, Mr. Amery said that the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, hoped shortly to announce the date of the Imperial Conference. Mr. R. G, Boothby, member for Aberdeenshire East: "Is it proposed to hold an Economic Conference as well as a political one?" Mr. Amery: "The economic aspects will certainly be discussed, but whether they ghall be done separately is another Blatter." BRITISH TYPEWRITERS. Replying to Sir H. Brittain, Mr. A. M. Samuel, Under-Secretary for Oversea Trade, said that as far as he was aware, foreign typewriters were not imported in sections for assembling in Britain. Three different makes of British typewriters were used in Government offices. The Rt. Hon. R. F. McNeil, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, told Sir A. Holbrook, member for Basingstoke, that 24,700 foreign typewriters were bought in war time when no British machines were avjiilable, hut British machines were now being increasingly bought.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)