PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 8 September 1926, Page 11

PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATES.

THEIR AUSTRALIAN VISIT.

AN EXTENSIVE ITINERARY

MANY TOURS ARRANGED

Imons the pa»wa?er# \-y the Ulimaroa from Sydney yesterday afternoon, was Hei,.e of Representative*. M.'l-urno. and honorary secretary of the I nmmonwealrh Hranrh of the Empire Parliamentnrv Association. Mr U«le is '"""""' the" BritUli. fana-lian. IrUh Free Mate. ~,,1 Xpwfniin.llan.l delegates whn arrive ' at Au.-kland >>v the mail .tenmer Aoranui on -unday next, .mi γ-uto to ""YhTiirrivnl in Sydney on <e;uera vr H. M i,l Mr Cale. Clio dele-ates. including ii,ow fr.im Vpw inland, will ho af ,..,rd.-.l a Hvi, reception in the I.nvn Hill On tli" following day they will leave for Brisbane, wh-re tljey will I'c joinofl I.v the delegate froai Malta, arrivins by the R.Ms Orn.uz. for a day ,hey will'be the »ue#ts of the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland viort departing for Nambour. ("Jyinpie. Rockhampton. St. Lawrence. Markay. Townsville. Cairns. Kuranda and lunga hurra. A stay of one day will In? made at the last named place, the delegates heintr motored about the township. Thence they will return to Cairns by road. From Cairn.- the party will visit Babinda. Townsville. Roekhariipton. Gladstone. Bun,labor.-, them. roturnitU! to | Brisbaiif. Leaving Brisbane airain on October 4 the delegates will motor from Southport to J Tweed Heads, and thence to Murwillum- J bah, inspecting the Condon? sugar mills I en route. On arrival at Newcastle on j the following day the party will be. received by "the Mayor and will later j inspect the harbour and Government j dockyard. Sydney will be reached on the evening of the same day. Here five days will be spent. A very complete programme, including visits to the Blue Mountains, has been drawn up tor the entertainment of the visitors. Federal Capital Territory. The delegates are to arrive at Canberra on October 11, when an inspection will be made of Parliament House During the morning a presentation of a Speaker's chair to the House of Representatives will be made by the United Kingdom branch of the association. A j general meeting of the Empire Parliamentary Association will be held in the evening". Two days will be spent at Canberra, after which the delegate.-, will go on to Downing. On October 15 the party is due to arrive at Melbourne, being received on that evening by the Governor of Victoria and Lady Somers at Government House. Six days" later the delegates will board the steamer for Tasmania, where a week will he spent. They will return to Melbourne on October 27 and will remain there until Xovemher 3. when departure i will be taken for Adelaide. , Six days will be spent in South Aus tralia, the delegates then proceeding to Western Australia. They are | due at Ealgoolie on November 12, Perth on November 13, Fremantle on November 15, and Group Settlements on November IC. On November 13 the party will return to Perth and on the following day will inspect a section of the wheat belt. On this date the New Zealand delegates ie to leave the main party, proceeding by the trajis-continental train to Sydney to embark for the Dominion. On November 22 the other delegates will leave by the RJLs. Otranto on their homeward voyage. A slightly altered itinerary will be observed by the South African and Southern Rhodesian delegates, who are not due to arrive at Sydney by train trom Adelaide until September 24. This party will join the main party at Bundaberg on September 30. On the departure of the main party on November 22 they will remain in Western Australia, finally sailing from Fremantle by the Themietocles on December 6. j It was impossible for the delegates to spend longer than the one day at Auckland, said Mr. Gale. It had not been suggested that the party should break their journey at this port until after the Australian itinerary had been drawn up, and it was then too late.