EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT
A CONFERENCE IN CANADA. BRITAIN’S DELEGATES. (British Official Wireless.}-*' (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, July 27. Questions of common interest throughout the Empire, including trade and economic development and migration, will be discussed by the Empire Parliamentary Association delegates at a conference in the House of Commons at Ottawa, which will open on August 29. The delegates from the British Parliament will include members ox all three political parties, among them being Lord Hailshanx (Lord Chancellor), Viscount Peel (First Commissioner of Works), Lord Thompson (who was Air Minister in the Labour Government). They, together with many of the delegates from other parts of the Empire, will leave Southampton on August 18 on the Empress of France, and will ' e met at Quebec by the Canadian Prime Minister (Mr Mackenzie King) and leading members of the Cabinet and Opposition. The delegates will make an extensive tour of Canada,- during which matters of particular concern to business ai d other interests will be discussed at various centres and conferences held with the provincial Parliaments.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20473, 30 July 1928, Page 9
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