EMPIRE PROBLEMS.
TO BE DISCUSSED BY PARLIAMENTARIANS. COMING CONFERENCE AT OTTAWA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 27. Questions of common interest throughout the Empire, including trade and economic development and migration, will be discussed I>v the Empire Parliamentary Association delegate* at the conference in the House of Commons, Ottawa, which opens on August 29. The delegates from the British Parliament include members of all three political parties, among them being Lord Hail sham (Lord Chancellor). Viscount Peel (First Commissioner of Works), and Lord Thompson (who was Air Minister in the Labour Government). They, together with many of the delegates from other parts of the Empire, will leave Southampton on August 18 on the Empress of France, and will be met at Quebec by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, and leading members of the Cabinet and Opposition. Delegates will make an extensive tour <>l Canada, during which matters of particular concern to business and other interests will be discussed at various centres, and conferences held* with the provincial Parliaments.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 July 1928, Page 7
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170EMPIRE PROBLEMS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 July 1928, Page 7
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