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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 238, 26 September 1930, Page 5

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THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE UNITED KINGDOM DELEGATES. BROADCAST OF MAIN SPEECHES (British Official Wireless.) (Received 26, 12.30 p.m.) Rugby, Sept. 25, During the Imperial Conference the British Broadcasting Corporation will on Wednesday evening broadcast talks by some of the leading delegates. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will speak next Wednesday and his remarks will be relayed throughout America. The opening meeting of the Imperial Conference on Wednesday next will be held in the reception room at the Foreign Office. This room, which is the one in which the Locarno treaties were signed, is more spacious than any available at the Prime Minister's official residence. The list of delegates to the con ference is published. The names of the Dominion delegates are already known; the United Kingdom ilelogates will be the Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister-. Hon Philip Snowden, Chancellor of tho Exchequer; Hon. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary: Hon. J. H. Thomas, Secretarv for Dominion Affairs; Lord Passfield, Secretary for Colonies; Lord Sankey, tho Lord Chancellor; and Mr William Graham, President of the Board of Trade. Sir William Jowitt, AttorneyGeneral, and Mr. Pethick Lawrence, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, will be in attendance.

A general outline of the agenda for the conference, as announced by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on July 30, was summarised in the Rugby transmission of that date.

The Newfoundland Prime Minister, Sir Richard Squires, who arrived in London last night, called on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald this afternoon.

EMPIRE TRADE POLICY. SUGGESTED SECRETARIAT. (United Preaa Association—By Cable— Copyright.) London, Sept. 25The "Morning post” says: "What the British Empire wants is less politics and more trade. The Imperial Conference needs a permanent secretariat to carry out a settled policy.” "The Times” says: “Tho economic secretariat must not be responsible to any of the Governments, but jointly end severally to all. It can only enjoy the full confidence of the rest of the Empire if it is not tied to the Home Government. The ideal is an Imperial organisation with a purse of its own, to which each of the Governments of the Empire will contribute according to its means. Such an organisation would find plenty of work to do. The members of the British commonwealth must co-operate and organise if they are not tn he left behind in the race for prosperity.” "DOLE” RECIPIENTS. (United Press Association—By Cable— Copyright.) (Received 26. 8.30 a.m.) London, Sept. 25. Tho "Daily Mail's” political editor says that Free State members of Cabinit are discussing a plan for consideration at the Imperial Conference whereby recipients of the "dole” in the United Kingdom might emigrate and continue to draw the “dole” while settling down in new lands.