DELEGATION TO LONDON

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21437, 1 April 1935, Page 10

DELEGATION TO LONDON

o PRIME .MINISTER SAILS TO-MORROW REPRESENTATIVE AT .H" HI LEE ' CELEBRATIONS I From Our Parliamentary Reporter. I WELLINGTON, March 31. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) v/ill leave Wellington to-morrow night for Auckland on his way to London, where he will represent New Zealand at the King's silver jubilee celebrations, and also at informal conferences with the British authorities on the meat situation. He will be accompanied by Mrs Forbes. Other members of the party on the trip will be the Prime Minister's chief private secretary, Mr C. A. Jefl'ery, and Mrs Jeffery, Mr H. Ive Forde, economic secretary, and Mr A. L. Lewis, attendant and special messenger. The delegation will take passage on Tuesday morning in the Aorangi from Auckland to Vancouver, making calls at Suva and Honolulu, and almost immediately after arrival at Vancouver the party will proceed by rail across Canada, breaking the journey at Banff, the famous mountain resort, and at Ottawa, where the Prime Minister will call on representatives of the Federal Government. The delegation will then travel to New York, and there embark on the Aquitania for Southampton. They are due in London on May 5, and while they are in London they will be the guests of the British Government at the Savoy Hotel. It is expected that the delegation will be engaged in London for at least six weeks.

Third Visit Mr Forbes is making his third visit to London as Prime Minister, having represented the Dominion at the Imperial Conference in 1930, ancl again at the V/orld Economic Conference in 1933. Until 1930 Mr Forbes, an ardent New Zealander, had never been abroad. Mr Forde, who has been a member of the "Evening Post's" reporting staff in Parliament for several years, and who was recently chairman of the press gallery, is an advanced student of economics, and on the completion of his special service with the New Zealand delegation in London he will continue his studies at Home, with a prospect of entering English journalism. Mr Forde was'edueated at Wellington College and Victoria College, where he specialised in economics and political science. He gave valuable evidence before the Monetary Committee and received special mention in the committee's reports. He has made a close study of British economic policy, and its complications with countries of supply. He is making his first visit to the United Kingdom.

POSITION OF MR I COATES [From Our Parliamentary Reporter..] WELLINGTON, March 31. The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) announced after a meeting of the Cabinet to-night that the Minister for Finance (the Pit. Hon. J. G. Coates) would sail for London early in April if it was at all possible. He said that Mr Coates would probably leave New Zealand by the Rangitane on April 13 and would reach London a ;eek or so after the Prime Minister himself. "I am going Home only if matters can 'be satisfactorily settled," said Mr Coates. "There are many questions arising out of my duties, particularly those connected with the mortgage legislation, that must be dealt, with, and it will be the end of this week before I can turn my attention to them. It is too early to say that I am definitely going Home."