BRITISH PARLIAMENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21344, 19 November 1932, Page 11

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

PROROGATION CEREMONY KING AND THE EMPIRE (Received November 18, G. 15 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. *l7 Parliament was prorogued to-day until Tuesday when a new session will begin. The King's speech expressed deep gratification at the successful conclusion of the Ottawa Conference and added: " I trust it will add strength to the ties between my peoples and stimulate Imperial trade."

Reference was made to an Act of great constitutional significance, namely, the Statute of Westminster, which makes clear the powers of the Dominion Parliaments and thereby implements the resolutions of the Imperial conferences of 1926 and 1930, setting out the relationship between the United Kingdom and the Dominions. Gratification was expressed at the fact that co-operation was so readily forthcoming from the Dominions and from foreign Governments in regard to the scheme for the voluntary regulation of imports of meat to Britain. Kegret was expressed that certain questions which had arisen between the United Kingdom and the Irish Free State had not yet—in spite of the efforts made—• been found capable of adjustment. . Another Empire reference was to the many difficult questions involved in the revision of t!se Indian Constitution and the removal of the serious barrier to progress by the Government's declaration regarding communal representation.