IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
HEADS OF DELEGATIONS. NO MEETINGS IN MEANTIME. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.' LONDON, October 20. The heads of the delegations to the Imperial Conference will not meet again until the reports of the committees now sitting begin to come in. DELEGATES HONOURED. MEMBERS OF PRIVY COUNCIL. (British Official Wireless.! RUGBY, October 20. The King has been pleased to approve of the appointment of the Prime Minister of Canada (Mr R. B. Bennett), the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr G. VV. Forbes), and the Prime Minister of Newfoundland (Sir Richard Squires) to be members of his Privy Council. MR FORBES’S MOVEMENTS. LONDON, October 20, Mr Forbes had luncheon with Mr Makower, the donor of the sets of engravings of Britain’s Prime Ministers to the various dominions, when high appreciation was expressed of Mr Makower’a generosity and the trouble he had taken to obtain complete sets for the dominion Parliaments. Mr and Mrs Scullin and Mr and Mrs Forbes to-night dined with Sir Muhammad Shaft (India), and then went on to the Marchioness of Londonderry’s reception to all the Imperial delegates.
COMMITTEES AT WORK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October'2o. (Received Oct. 21, at 5.5 p.m.) As the heads of the delegations to the Imperial Conference have completed their preliminary discussions on the whole agenda, various questions have now been remitted to committees for detailed examination and reports. . To-day the committee on communications received a deputation from the Empire Press Union, which urged cheaper rates for press messages throughout the Empire. The committee on arbitration and disarmament. discussed the draft disarmament convention, which has been designed to bring the League Covenant into accord with the Kellogg Pact. The Civil Aviation Committee held its first meeting, at which it passed a resolution of sympathy in regard to the RlOl tragedy and discussed progress in the heavier-than-air activities since last conference.
# The committee on economic co-opera-tion considered in broad outline the quota system as it would be applicable to United Kingdom wheat imports.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21163, 22 October 1930, Page 9
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