NINETEEN TWENTY-EIGHT COMMITTEE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 8 February 1929, Page 8

NINETEEN TWENTY-EIGHT COMMITTEE

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l am sorry your reporter did not give me au opportunity to communicate to him all the information he required to supply you with an outline of the proceedings at the conference of the Nineteen Twenty-eight Committee on Wednesday. The speculations aB to these proceedings you published yesterday may have given your readers an entirely wrong impression, of the objects and methods of the committee.

The decision of the conference to "con* tinue to function," as your report puts it, was in no way influenced "by the attitude taken up by the United Party in regard to State interference with private traders, and the members of the conference certainly did not go to the Prime Minister with the intention of extracting froni him "details of the Government's intentions in regard to State trading." A proceeding of that kind, would have been au inexcusable piece of impertinence.

The conference was not open to representatives' of the Press because there were questions of finance and administration to discuss which could not be adequately dealt with in the presence of strangers. An independent reporter, however, took a shorthand note of the pro* ceedings, and when this is transcribed its substance will be at the service of the newspapers. The executive invites the fullest publicity of its proceedings so far as they affect the public, and it is with the assistance of the newspapers it bopel to reach its goal.—l am, etc.,

LEONARD J. W. GARDNER, Bth February. \ Secretarr