Mr Nash’s Task Still Unfinished

Northern Advocate, 13 July 1939, Page 7

Mr Nash’s Task Still Unfinished

[Special to “Northern Advocate”] WELLINGTON, This Day. Finality in his negotiations in London had not been reached last/ night by the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, who reported progress in a • radio-telephone conversation with the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, earlier in the evening. Mr Nash told the Prime Minister that he still ■ hoped to be able to complete all details in time to board the Queen Mary at Southampton. “I told him to stay there until all negotiations were completed,” said ](■ Mr Savage. “He said he hoped to be able to board the liner, but that would depend on what progress was. madle.” Mr Savage said that when all negotiations were finished, a full statement would be issued simultaneously In New Zealand and in Britain. All aspecfs of Mr Nash’s mission were so closely inter-related that until finality , was. reached he was not in a pdsition to detail progress on any one of them. This statement might he expected reasonably soon. . . 1 .

Mr Savage also spoke with Mr Nash by radio-telephone on Tuesday night. He said that reception. was good, and he was able to converse with ease.

jMy Nash Meets v Mr. Norman

A cable message received yesterday stated; ,> ■ ; The Hon. Walter Nash, New Zealand Minister of Finance, and: Mr. Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, cqnsulted this afternoon to finalise details of export'credits, which it is believed will be ohthe lines cabled earlier.