MANDATES COMMISSION
QUESTIONAIRE DISCUSSED AUSTRALIA’S POSITION. LEAGUE COUNCIL’S DECISION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 12.15 p.m. to-day. GENEVA, March 9. The League Council considered the mandatories comments on the Mandate Commission’s formidable questionnaire. Australia emphasised that the Council’s extended .supervision on the commission’s advice had never been set out precisely. The Commonwealth was of the opinion that neither the Council nor the commission had a right to interfere in any way with the administration or to direct the mandatory in regard to details. The Commonwealth had always complied with the requirements to supply yearly information of its work under specific heads, but the questionnaire resorted to minuteness of detail inconsistent with the terms of the covenant or the purposes for which the commission was appointed. The -adoption of the questionnaire would make the mandatories’ position, if not untenable, at least most difficult and onerous. The Commonwealth considered that it would he unwise for the Council to adopt the questionnaire. The Council, after a brief discussion, remitted the questionnaire, with the mandatories’ comments, hack to the commission for further consideration.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 March 1927, Page 9
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178MANDATES COMMISSION Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 10 March 1927, Page 9
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