WORLD CONFERENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21975, 9 June 1933, Page 9

WORLD CONFERENCE

EMPIRE DELEGATES A PRELIMINARY MEETING (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, June 7. It haa been arranged that the Empire delegates to the World Economic Conference shall be available in London on Monday morning to attend a preliminary discussion at No. 10 Downing street. Mr MacDonald and most of the British delegates are expected to be present. Sir Thomas Wilford will represent the New Zealanders, who will arrive after the commencement of the conference. UNITED STATES DELEGATION k (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 7. The United States World Conference delegation, headed by Mr Hull (Secretary of State), who took a prominent part in the Washington discussions, is due in England to-morrow. Mr Hull will probably visit Mr MacDonald at Downing street on Friday morning. SAFETY OF DELEGATES ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS. LONDON, June 8. (Received June 8, at 9.55 p.m.) Extraordinary precautions are being taken to guard the Economic Conference delegations, many of whom are bringing their own police officials, whose activities will be dovetailed with a general Scotland Yard protection scheme. AN .EPOCH-MAKING EVENT RESPONSIBILITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. (Pee United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 8. The significance to New Zealand of the forthcoming World Economic Conference and the dependence of Empire prosperity on the outcome of the conference were stressed by his Excellency, Lord Bledisloe, at the Empire ball held tonight by the Victoria League. “Next Monday there will take place in London the most epoch-making conference the world has ever seen,” said his Excellency. “It is on the eve of the World Economic Conference that you are holding this Empire ball. I want at this time to make a particular appeal to all Empire enthusiasts to bear in sympathetic remembrance the Old Country, which is now holding a responsibility than ever in her illustrious past. On what happens at the conference will depend for good or ill the future of the world.' Great as is the responsibility which the Old Country is carrying upon her shoulders in endeavouring to point the way to a more prosperous world, it has been enormously eased by the fact that another great Anglo-Saxon Power is standing shoulder to shoulder with her at this conference ; and a guarantee that the conference will achieve a great measure of success is that the two great English-speaking nations of the world cannot afford it to be a failure. “ I make this appeal,” said his Excellency, “ because you must bear in mind that there is no country in the whole of the great British Empire that depends so preponderantly on the prosperity of the Old Land and the employment in her various industries of British work people as this Dominion of New Zealand. If British work people, as the result of unemployment, have no money in their pockets it will be very difficult, owing to the dependence of New Zealand’s primary products on the world’s markets, especially the British market, for the people of this country to regain prosperity. . . “If ever there was a time for us to show sympathy with the Old Land , that time is now,” Lord Bledisltje concluded. “May I ask you to remember the Old Country in the next, few crucial weeks and 1 may I appeal to those of you who have the same faith as I do in 'that Great Ruler of our destinies to put up a prayer for the success of the conference ”