PRIME MINISTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 228, 27 September 1938, Page 9

PRIME MINISTER.

Talk with Leader of

Opposition.

AUDIENCE WITH KING. (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 26. Mr. Chamberlain received Mr. Attlee. Leader of the Labour Opposition, and Mr. Arthur Greenwood. Labour leader. His Majesty received Mr. Chamberlain at the Palace. Mr. Chamberlain returned to Downing Street after 50 minutes with the King, who has cancelled his Glasgow visit, where he was to attend the launching of the Queen Elizabeth tomorrow.

A British official wireless message states that the Queen, accompanied by the Princesses, will carry out the programme as arranged both for the visit to the Empire Exhibition and for the launching of the Queen Elizabeth. In the evening Her Majesty will return to Balmoral for a short period.

An emergency meeting of the National Council of Labour considered the latest developments, information of which was earlier given to Mr Attlee and Mr. Greenwood by the Prime Minister.

The Labour party executive and the executive of the Parliamentary Labour party will meet to-morrow to discuss the procedure to be adopted in Parliament. Mr. Attlee will address a demonstration of over 10.000 at the Empress •tadium, Earls Court, to-night. When the House of Commons meets on Wednesday only private questions will be taken before Mr. Chamberlain rises on a motion for an adjournment to ma!V a full statement on the international situation. In order that th» House of Lords should h%ve an opportunity to hear Mr. Chamberlain's statement, the House will adjourn immediately, it being proposed to put down a motion for a discussion in that House the following afternoon.

AIR RAID SAFETY. « "Precautions Matter of Greatest Urgency." WARTIME FOOD PROBLEM. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, September 28. Mr. Herbert Morrison, chairman of the Air Raids Precaution Committee, addressing a public meeting, said: "In this critical hour, when our country, with the rest of Europe, is facing the finely balanced alternatives of peace or war. air raid precautions are a matter of the greatest urgency and importance to every London citizen. "There are enormous advantages in early preparation and organisation, and, I, therefore, urge all those who have no other task to discharge for public service, immediately to enrol and see to it that London maintains its reputation for civic order." It is announced that, at the request of the Food Defence Plans Department, the provision exchanges of the country have decided that the prices of bacon, hams, butter. chee~o. lard, cooking fat and margarine are to remain at their present level for a fortnight. A statement was issued after the meeting of the National Federation of Meat Traders, assuring the public that a practical scheme of control and rationing is available to be put intoimmedi•te operation in the cue of need.