IMPERIAL CONFERENCES.
OPPOSITION LEADERS. DISFAVOURED ; PROPOSAL. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT WELLINGTON. Thursday. Reference was made by the Prime Minister to-day to the suggestion. by the Right Hon. J. H. Thomas, Secretary for the Colonies, at a dinner in London to Mr. Theodore, Premier of Queensland, that leaders of recognised Oppositions should attend Imperial Conferences as well as Prime Ministers. This, he thought, would have a tendency to cause party feeling to be avoided. Mr. Massey stated that he had brought this same matter up at a meeting of the War Cabinet in 1917. ' ■'■•■ ' ' - !£
"I thought at the time." said Mr. Massey, "that' it would have been the right . thing .to do, but it - met with no support from any one of the representatives who were there. The point which was raised in objection to the proposal was the difficulty which would arise over the selection of leaders where there was more than one party in opposition., He had been asked what the position would be with the several _ parties in the ( House of Commons. I remember the matter quite well. The proposal was not received with favour." •_■ 7 -,--.,... ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18710, 16 May 1924, Page 9
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