LABOUR POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 58, 6 September 1938, Page 12

LABOUR POLICY

INTERNATIONAL SITUATION

DISCUSSIONS IN BRITAIN

(British Official Wireless.) (Received September 6, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, September 5,

The Trades Union Congress at Blackpool accepted a recommendation by its standing orders committee to held a private discussion on Thursday on the international situation.

On Wednesday a joint meeting of the general council.of the national executive committee of the Labour Party and of the executive of the Parliamentary Labour Party is expected to frame a declaration that will be an inter-statement of Labour's policy.

In his presidential address Mr. H. H. Elvin commented on aspects of the European situation; recalling the position in 1914, and declared that all those who had lived through the last war should have learned the illusory nature of an armed peace.

Government was definitely coming in or not."

WELSH GUARDS BAND. '

He was unable to finalise the arrangements with the Welsh Guards jßand before he left England, but that was in the hands of the New Zealand High Commissioner, and he had not the slightest doubt that the band was secured. First the War Office had to be approached, and then there was the difficulty that no Guards band could leave England for more than three months, and as this band would be away from the Old Country for some ten months, that meant the lengthy formality of obtaining the consent of the King. The band would consist of a director and 45 musicians, nearly all of whom played more than one instrument. The band also had a vocal quartet and vocal soloists, a most unusual thing in a Guards band. "We heard the band on two occasions," continued Mr. Hainsworth, "once with an audience of 20,000 people. When they come here people will find that the standard of music is of the highest order, and that the bandsmen will make themselves popular. The cost of securing this band has greatly exceeded what I had in mind, but, knowing the value of good music in an enterprise of this kind, I feel sure that we have value for the expenditure." THE TOURIST TIDE. " 'It is a country I have always wanted to see,' was one of the most frequent remarks made to us, and it encouraged me tremendously to realise that many people meant to come here ifor the Centennial. It was so in Canada, America, and especially so in Great Britain. I learnt with great satisfaction in Australia that it is cxi pected that a record number of people will cross the Tasman for what the tourist agents of all States look upon as a coming boom year in travel New Zealandwards. Taken all round, I am well satisfied with what I have been able to do, and I think I can say that the success of the Exhibition is assured." j