LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 June 1927, Page 5

LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION.

INTERNATIONAL MATTERS DISCUSSED.

(BY TELEGRAPH - PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 1. At the League of Nations Union cojiference to-day the following remit, proposed by Mr IV. T. G. Airey (Christchurch), and seconded by Dr. Gibb (Wellington), was carried: “That this conference . stresses the need for earnest public consideration of the question whether the Singapore base is consistent with the efforts to establish security by international goodwill and understanding.” t It was also agreed on Mr Airey’s motion: “That while congratulating the New Zealand Government on its administration of its mandatory trust in Western Samoa, this conference regrets the attitude of the Government to the questionnaire recently proposed by the Mandates Commission, and approves of the principle laid down by the Belgian (Government that the Mandates Commission cannot give the council effective assistance in its work of supervision unless the council accords its wide powers of discretion as tothe questions which it may think fit to ask the Mandatory States.” Several speakers referred' to the situation in China, and a resolution was passed asking the British Government to submit any matters which could not be agreed upon to the League of Nations or some other impartial tribunal for arbitration.

The annual report mentions the fact that the union had been unable to form a parliamentary League of Nations group similar to that in England, and states this position is unsatisfactory.