EMPIRE PRESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17230, 9 April 1930, Page 2

EMPIRE PRESS

COMING CONFERENCE PROVISION FOE EVERY TASTE LONDON, Feb, 27. At the annual meeting of the Empire Press Union this week Major M.P., president and chairman of the council, referred to the programme oi the Imperial Press Conference in the summer. Major Aster said that, although H was impossible at present to publish the whole programme, its main features were complete. They had endeavoured to provide for every taste and interest. The welcome hy the Home members would take the form of a banquet at Guildhall, over which the i,ord Mayer had promised to preside. The next day there would be a luncheon of the Empire Parliamentary Association in Westminster Hall, with the Speaker in the chair. This would give the delegates a chance of meeting members of both Houses of Parliament. The Royal Empire Society was giving a dinner to bring the delegates in touch with ex-Govern-ors-General, Viceroys, and High Commissioners. At a dinner at the Royal Aciulemy, given by the union and presided over by the president of the Royal Academy, their guests would meet men in the leading professions and sciences. At another dinner in the Merchant Tailors' Hall, they would come in touch with the worlds of finance, trade, and industry. A dinner at, the ifco, would provide a lighter and perhaps more I frivolous touch. The Lord Mayor had invited the delegates to a luncheon at the Mansion House. There would be visits to the Derby, to Ascot, to the Aldershot Tattoo, and to naval, military, and Air Force displays. There was also to be a Government reception at Hampton Court, at which the 'Prime Minister had promised to receive the delegates. Private hospitality, in the form of week-end parlies, would take the visitors into the country from June I 14 to 16. TOUR OF THE PROVINCES. In the second week the party would be taken out of London. They would go to Liverpool and to the industrial : districts round Bradford and Doncaster to see something of conditions in the textile and coal-mining worlds. They would also visit Warwick Castle and would spent a morning at Stratford-on- ! Avon. During the third week they would go to Scotland, and the union was at presont in touch with the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who had ev- ;■ pressed a wish to help in every way he could. On the way they would stop I for a few hours in Coventry to show the delegates something of mass production. BUSINESS MEETINGS. As to the conference sessions, it was their desire to enable the delegates to se« something of leading statesmen and to hear their views on important questions. With that object they were dej voting two sessions to the Government l and one to each of the Opposition parI tics. The Prime Minister had proof < ised. if possible, to address the opening session on Tuesday, June 3; Mr. Lloyd George would address another on Juno 6: and Mr. Baldwin another on Juno 1 25. There were to be four other • sessions, at which they would discuss : communications, cables, wireless, the air mails, and other matters, such as newspaper production and advertising, of technical interest to the press. In addition to the customary business of the animal meeting, Viscount Burnham was elected an honorary life member of the union. This was on the motion of Sir Horry Brit tain, the only other life member. —Wellington Post.