OTTAWA CONFERENCE
REASON FOR POSTPONEMENT (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 9. ' (Received June 10, at 5.5 p.m.) The Dominions Secretary (Mr J. H. Thomas), in the House of announced that the Imperial Economic Conference at Ottawa had been postponed until May next year. The arrangements, he said, had been in the hands of the Canadian Government and yesterday the Prime Minister of Canada made a statement to the effect that owing to difficulties experienced by Australia and New Zealand in arranging for full representation in August it had become necessary for the Canadian Government to propose postponement of the conference until 1932, and all the other Governments concerned had accepted the proposal.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21358, 11 June 1931, Page 10
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