PACIFIC RELATIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 6

PACIFIC RELATIONS.

CONFERENCE OF INSTITUTE. DOAIINION’S INTEREST. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 14. New Zealand will definitely be represented at the triennial conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, in August at loseniito National Park, California. The leader will be Dr. Belsliaw, who is already in the United States on a Rockefeller Fellowship. 3he others who are certain to attend are Aliss AI. Seaton, AVellington group secretary, Dr. E. N. Alerrington, principal of Knox College, Dunedin, and Air B. R. Turner, New Zealand branch secretary. It is understood that Air 3’. D. Hall, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, will also attend. He is in America as the guest of the Carnegie Corporation. Specific topics for discussion are the United States’s recovery programme. Japanese economic expansion in world markets, the economic development and nationality policy of the Soviet Union, the economic and social reconstruction iii China, the changing balance of political iorces iu the Pacific, and the possibilities of peaeful adjustment. New Zealand’s contribution to the conference documentation will take the form of two , data papers respectively written by Dr. AV. B. Sutcli, of tlie staff of the Alinister of Finance, and Dr. Belsliaw, Professrfr of Economics at the Auckland University.