TOUR OF SCOTLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19496, 27 November 1926, Page 11

TOUR OF SCOTLAND.

DOMINION PRIME MINISTERS

BUSY DAY AT GLASGOW.

CRUISERS FOR AUSTRALIA

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 25.

The Dominion Prime Ministers arrived in Glasgow to-day from Edinburgh. They 'were greeted by fog and drizzle, a most dismal day marking their arrival. The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr. J. G. Coates, and party travelled early from Edinburgh, and the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. S. M. Bruce, and the others came later. They were welcomed by Lord Abereonwav and Sir Thomas Bell, chairman of John Brown 'and Campany, whose shipbuilding works at Clydebank the Australians and Newfoundlanders inspected. The visitors saw the cruisers Australia I and Canberra The hull of the Australia will be ready for launching in February and will go into commission a year later. The Canberra will be ready three months later, although the work has been held up by the strike causing lack of materials. Efficient Fighting Machines. The cruisers will include the latest improvements. In the language of an Australian officer aboard, they will be the most efficient fighting machines permitted by the Washington Treaty, Mrs. Bruce, aboard the Australia, started the electrically-driven machinery for planing the edges of the gun turret base and took away the first shavings. Later, the party saw the boilers and complete turbine unit for the new highspeed cruisers. Three Australian naval engineering officers, Commanders Ross and Mears, and Lieutenant-Commander Carr, (a brother of " Slip" Carr), were presented to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce.

Later, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce and Mr. W. S. Monroe, Prime Minister of Newfoundland, attended a luncheon at which there was a large representation of the city's commercial interests. Mr. Bruce was unexpectedly called upon to speak and he delivered a most forceful speech on Empire defence. He said that the Dominions who claimed the rights and privileges of the status defined by the Imperial Conference must shoulder a corresponding burden in the matter of defence. Steel lor New Zealand. Mr. Coates and his party this morning inspected Arrols' Works at Bridgeton, which recently received a £1,500,000 order for steel-work for New Zealand's railway workshops. They also saw the now turbine locomotive, which was specially commissioned to give the visitors a ride. At Beardmore's they saw the engines o? the new airships, All the Dominion delegates took tea at the university and in the evening, at a dinner, were the guests of Glasgow Corporation. The principle conversation throughout the day was the Glasgow Corporation's year-old embargo against alcohol at municipal functions, ai> embargo which was not removed even in honour of the Dominion guests. Light was thrown on the drastic decision of the corporation by a Glasgow citizen's declaration that there was more drunkenness in Glasgow in one day than in a whole week in any other city, although it was not apparent at present owing to the shocking state of unemployment