LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20964, 1 March 1930, Page 19

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

THE LABOUR CONVENTION,

GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE.

(Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, February-28. Professor A. H. Tocker, of Canterbury College, has been invited by the Government to be the official representative of New Zealand at the, next Labour convention of the League oi Nations at p™ f ev,i - £ lle official invitation reached 1 lofessor locker yesterday. His acceptance will depend on his receiving- the necessary leave of absence from the Canterbury College Board of Governors, ~M r. G - J- Smith, M.L.C., chairman of verTT b L- ar Li’ S i ate ? that lle appreciated TnX^ lgh J + w I “ vltation to Professor Tocker and that the question of grantde?ay eaVe WOuld be dealt with without LABOUR’S REPRE SENT ATI -MR E. J. HOWARD'S POSITION. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, February 28 Howard, M.P. for Christchuiuh South, who was nominated without his consent as a delegate to represent the Aew Zealand trade unions at the International Labour Conference at Geneva m June next, has asked the Minister of Labour to withdraw his name from the baHot, as he feels that his duties are m the Dominion during the session of Parliament. It is undestood that the ballot papers for the election of the Labour representative at the conference have already been circulated, and that Mr Howards official intimation has been made too late to enable his name to be withdrawn from the ballot. The ballot papers are returnable at noon on March