PACIFIC RELATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 121, 25 May 1933, Page 13

PACIFIC RELATIONS

BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

NEW ZEALAND DELEGATES

Tho'New Zealand d>lcgulc& to the liflh biennial confcicnce of the Institute of Pacific-'..Relations at Banft, Canada, in August will be. tho Hon.. W. Dowmo Stewait, M.P. foi- . Dunedin West, Mr. Walter Nash, M.P. for Hutt, Mr. il. i\ yon Haast, banister and solicitor, of Wellington, Mr. H. P. Richmond, bairistcr and solicitor, of Auckland, who is at present in England in connection with, several New Zealand cases before the Privy Council, and probably Miss M. Seaton, honorary secretary of the Wellington group of the institute. • . , , The conference of the institute will commence on August 14, and conclude a fortnight later. Mr. Nash, who is a vice-president of the. institute in New Zealand, will "be the first to leave for Banff, it being his intention to sail from the Dominion on June 27, to enable him to attend the meetings of the council a month prior to the conference. Mr. Nash attended the second biennial eonforence at Honolulu in 1927, and on this occasion ho expects, to be absent from New Zealand for about'four months. Mr.yon Haast was a member of the New Zealand delegation to 'the'fourth conference at Shanghai in ,1931. After the Banff conference, Messrs. Stewart, Nash, and yon Haast, and possibly Mr. Richmond,- will proceed to Toronto. for the British Commonwealth Belations Conference, iv the interests of which Mr. H...V. Hbdson, of the staff of "The Round Table," was recently in New Zealand. While in Toronto Mr. Nash will also attend the Port Conference, at which he. will represent the Wellington Harbour Board. Mr. Stewart and Mr.yon Haast will probably leave. Auckland,, by the Aorangi on July 25, and arrive back in the Dominion iate in . October.f'