PEACE CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 136, 5 December 1918, Page 8

PEACE CONFERENCE

STATEMENT BY ME :■. MASSEY. . ; '.-Vlf .the. leaders are much longer in getting away to the Peace Conference it wfll be all over," said Mr. Craigie (iunaru), m urging the hasty departure °f, *ne Prune Minister and Sir Joseph . Ward for England. ■, = . . Mr. Massey said he was sorry the member wag co anxious to get him out of the. country, but he himself was anxious to get away with Sir Joseph Ward to take part, in the important conferences that ->. were talcing place. Mr. Hughes,' 1 Mr. Joseph Cook, and ; Sir ' Jlobert Borden w.ere now in London, taking part in the War Cabinet, and heY was sorry, that he and his colleaguV were,not there. Even at the moment, he was unable to say what steamer they: would go Home by, but, when they;'did" leave, vt would be by the shortest route. But the arrangements were being mado ' by the Imperial authorities, and they 5' hoped to be away by the end of next ' week. . .. . ."Do, you want an additional private ■ secretary?" said Mr. Isitt. ■ I have had applications from some hundreds of gentlemen,, and ladies too," said Mr. Massey, "wh6 are anxious to act ( as secretaries and typietg." , -;, "What about, your bench mate?" said a member, indicating^the member for Sonthem Maori, Mr. Uru, who had been chatting with the Prime Minister. ■ "As a matter of fact," Mr. Massey re- . plied, "Mr. Uru and I were just,considering the possibility of having 'the Maori race represented, if not at-thei Peace Conference, then certainly at"..the. Peace Celebrations." •