EMPIRE CONFERENCE.
Delegates From All Parts For Caoada. PARLIAMENTARIANS TO MEET. (British Official Wireless.) (Rccelvcd 1- noon.) RUGBY, July 28. Questions °f comrao'i interest, throughout the Empire, including tnule and economic development ;uid migration, will be discussed by the Empire Parliamentary Association delegates at a conference in the House of Commons at Ottawa, which opens on August 21). The delegates from the British Parliament include members of all three political parties, among them being Lord ilailsham, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Peel, the First Commissioner of Work*, and Lord Thompson, who was Air Minister in the Labour Government. They, together with many of the delegates from other parts_ of the Empire, will leave Southampton on August IS on the Empress of France, and will be met at Quebec by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, and leading members of the Cabinygt- and the Opposition. The delegates will make an extensive tour of Canada, during which matters of particular concern to business and other interests will be discussed at various centres and conferences held with provincial Parliaments.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 9
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176EMPIRE CONFERENCE. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1928, Page 9
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