EMPIRE INTERESTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 205, 28 July 1928, Page 9

EMPIRE INTERESTS

CONFERENCE AT OTTAWA. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. EXTENSIVE TOUR OF CANADA. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received July 28, 11.5 a.m. RUGBY, July 27. Questions of common interest throughout the Empire, including trade and economic development, and migration will Be discussed by the Empire Parliamentary Association delegates at a conference in the House of Commons at Ottawa, which opens on August 29. Delegates from the British Parliament include members of all three political parties, among them being Lord Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Peel, First Commissioner of Works, and Lord Thompson, who was Air Minister in the Labour Government. They, together lyitli 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, ahd leading members of the Cabinet and Opposition. The delegates will make an extensive tour of Canada, during which matters of particular concern to business and other interests will bo discussed at various centres, and conferences held with the provincial Parliaments.