PREMIERS IN ENGLAND.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16211, 23 August 1923, Page 6

PREMIERS IN ENGLAND.

LAVISH HOSPITALITY: PUBLIC i ENGAGEMENTS.

LONDON, Aug. 6.—London is preparing to receive the delegates to the Imperial .Conference with a programme of entertainment drawn up on a more than usual lavish stale. Numerous private functions, and a lunch with the King at Buckingham Palace, are merely items it: a series of events which will give them a glowing conception of English hospi-' iaiity.

The conference officials are in hopes of bringing the Australian! and New Zealand Prime Ministers, Mr. S. M. Bruce and Mr. W. F. Massey, into touch with many of the most prominent contemporary leaders in politics, commerce, and society. The idea, is to enable them to exchange views om all kinds of subjects, and to further tho creation of closer co-operation within the Empire. Time will, not hang heavily on the visitors' hands during week-ends. For one Saturday to Monday they wii], it has been arranged, bei the guests of Mr. Stianley Baldwin at Chequers. Another weekend will be spent with the Duke of Devonshire at his magnificent country mansion, Chats worth, while a third will scei them, at Broad - lands, under the hospitable roof of Colonlell W. W. Ashley, Parliamentary Secretary to the Office of Works. As to public dinners which they will be railed on to attend, their name is legion. There will be one given by the Royal Colonial Institute on October 2. one by the London Chamber of Commerce on the 3rd, one by the Govern menb on the Bth, one by the Trinity Hall Association on tlhe 10th, another by' tbe Associated British Chambers of Com mere© on the ?4th, and yet another by the Overseas Leamie on November 6.