IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
PUBLICATION OF DEBATES.
Infthe course of his reply to the producers' deputation yesterday, the Prime Minister (Mr. Massey) said the' question of meat and shipping was very fully dealt with at the Imperial Conference, but he could not make public the debates, as the reports were confidential.
Sir Joseph Ward said he was greatly astonished that the authorities at Home had not allowed tho debates at the Imperial Conference to be published. They contained everything the deputation wanted to know. The New Zealand representatives drew out of the authorities the fact that they were making a profit af 3d a lb on New Zealand meat, and using it to balance the American loss. He protested strongly at the time against the non-publication of the debates, and he renewed that protest now. He could not understand why the debates .which related only to the British Empire, except as regards American meat, were not published. He did not' see the good of men going to the Imperial Conference if the valuable resultwere not to be widely circulated, and good done thereby. • Mr. Massey. agreed with what Sir Joseph Ward said.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 9
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190IMPERIAL CONFERENCE Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 9
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