Empire Parliamentary Association Delegates

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 42, 19 February 1938, Page 8

Empire Parliamentary Association Delegates

LUNCHEON IN CAPITAL WELLINGTON, Feb. 17. The value of an interchange of visits by representatives of British legislatures was stressed by speakers at the luncheon given to-day by the New Zealand branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association in honour of Dr. Hugh Dalton, M.P. (British House of Commons), Lieutenant-Colonel A. R. Gordon, D. 5.0., M.P. (Northern Ireland), Mr. G. P. Steyn, M.P. (Union of South Africa), and Sir Howard d'Egville, K.8.E., secretary of the association. The Speaker of the Legislative Council, Sir Walter Carncross, presided in his capacity as joint-president of the New Zealand branch of the association. A welcome was accorded the visitors by the Minister of Education, Hon. P. Fraser, who deputised for the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage. New Zealand, he said, would be more than delighted to receive a full representation of the association from every country of the British Commonwealth on the occasion of its centenial in 1940. An invitation was being extended to the association to hold a conference in the Dominion in that year and it was hoped that it would be accepted.