EMPIRE DELEGATION
SOUTH AFRICAN MEETING NEXT GATHERING MAY BE HELD IN LONDON. PARLIAMENTARIANS ON TOUR. Bv’ Telegraph-—Press Assn.—Copyright. Beuter's Telegram. CAPETOWN, September 12. Mr J. H. Tbomaa presided at a conference at Bloemfontein of the visiting delegates of the Empire Parliamentary Association with their colleagues of the South African Parliament. The conference unanimously adopted the principle of Parliamentary delegations visiting different ocuntries of the Empire at least once in two years. Mr Thomas’s and Viscount Burnham’s proposal that the next meeting be in London in 1925 was received with enthusiasm. There are expected to be several further conferences during the remainCOMMOMWEALTH PROBLEM SOLUTION OF QUESTIONS. WORK OF ALL PARTIES. (Sydney "Sun” Cable.) CAPETOWN, September 12. Mr J. H. Thomas, British Secretary for the Colonies, interviewed, affirmed that the solution of questions affecting the whole of the British Commonwealth, such as the Indian, must be -tfc«'Mtfork'cf» < aIV parties. A Dominions’ Conference would "not abrogate the rights of each Dominion or delegate Cabinet responsibilities. The conference .will explore the whole _ situation, and devise a means of avoiding friction.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11934, 15 September 1924, Page 8
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176EMPIRE DELEGATION New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11934, 15 September 1924, Page 8
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