BOUND FOR LONDON

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 110, 12 May 1933, Page 8

BOUND FOR LONDON

N.Z. DELEGATION

DEPARTURE TODAY

FAREWELL AT WHARF

Sharp to time, and to the accompaniment of a round of cheering, the Rangitata, carrying the members of the New Zealand delegation to the World Economic Conference, left Glasgow Wharf at noon today for London. The members of the delegation said their farewells in the wharf shed and went aboard tho Rangitata a few' minutes before 12 o'clock. The members of the official party are the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) and Mrs. Forbes, the Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. R. Masters) and Mrs. Masters, the Assistant Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. G. C. Eodda), Professor A. H. Toeker, Mr. C. A. Jeffery (private secretary to the Prime Minister), and Dr. B. M. Campbell (private secretary to the Minister of Finance). Present on the wharf to bid farewell to the delegation were the ActingPrime Minister (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) and Mrs. Coates, members of Cabinet and their wives, the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Sir Charles Statham), members of the Legislature, members •of Mr. Forbes's and Mr. Masters's families, heads of Departments, members of the Parliamentary secretarial corps, and a large number of personal friends ,of the travellers. The Prime Minister and other members of the delegation spent some time in chatting with Ministers and Departmental heads before going on board the Rangitata. Mrs. Forbes and Mrs. Masters were the recipients of several handsome bouquets. As the Rangitata left the wharf cheers were called for the members of the delegation. These were given enthusiastically and acknowledged from the upper deck by the Prime Minister.