EMPIRE PICTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1938, Page 10

EMPIRE PICTURE.

SYDNEY CONFERENCE. RETURN OF DELEGATES. TRENDS IN NEW ZEALAND. New Zealand and a number of other delegates to the Second British Commonwealth Relations Conference held in Sydney arrived at Auckland by the Monterey this morning. Many delegates who have remained in Australia for a short time following the conference will come to New Zealand during the next three weeks to study conditions and see the scenic attractions of the Dominion.

The Marquis of Lothian, chairman of the United Kingdom delegation, will arrive at Auckland by the Niagara on October 3. As secretary of the Rhodes Trust he will have matters to discuss with educational leaders. He will be accompanied by the Hon. Pandit Hirdsiy Xath, chairman of the Indiun Delegation. The majority of the Canadian delegation and Mr. Lionel Curtis, a member of the council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and Mr. H. V. Hodson, editor of the Round Table, expect to reach Wellington on October 13. The New Zealand delegates and others on the Monterey all declared that the conference had been most valuable from an Empire viewpoint, although sharp difference* of opinion had been at times revealed during the discussions. Contrasting Viewpoint*. Those who arrived were Mr. G. R. Powles, of Wellington, secretary of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs; Mr. W. T. G. Airey, lecturer in history at the Auckland University College, and a former president of the Auckland branch of the League of Nations Union; Dr. J. R. Elder, professor of history at the University of Otago; Mr. George Lawn, economic adviser to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and a member of the bank board; Dr. W. B. Sutch, secretary to the Minister of Fin-