COMMERCE CONGRESS.
HONOUR FOR ME. HUGHES
IMPERIAL REPRESENTATIVE.
INVITATION ACCEPTED.
(Received April 11, 9 p.m.) London, April 10.
A statement was made. in the House of Commons by the Prime Minister, Mr. H. H. Asquith, that the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Bonar Law, had forwarded a request to Mr. W. M.- Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia, that he should go to Peris as .one of the representatives r..' the • Imperial Government. Mr. Asquith said he hoped Mr. Hughes would, be able to r use invention. •
M.\ Snon Labour member ior Blackburn, asked whether Mr. Hughes would go as the representative of the Australian democracy, because every Labour paper in Australia had. repudiated his attitude.
Mr. Asquith: He will go as a representative of the Imperial Government.
Mr. Hughes stated in an interview that he had accepted the offer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16202, 12 April 1916, Page 7
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