“EACH FOR ALL”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17406, 3 November 1930, Page 7

“EACH FOR ALL”

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE PLEA FOR ECONOMIC UNITY LONDON, Nov. 1. Parliamentarians from New Zealand to 'Newfoundland, and from Bermuda to New South Wales, met in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords when tho Empire Parliamentary Association gave a dinner to the delegates. The guests included Messrs. J. Brennan, A. Moloney, J. Garran, G. W. Forbes, Sir Thomas Sidey, and Messrs. Coleman, Follev. and H. -FI. Smith - (Victoria)-, and Miss Holman.

Mr, MacDonald presided and described the conference ns anything but barren.

Mr. Bennett said lie still hoped that before it was ton late they would develop some scheme whereby they migh‘ help each for all, and all for each, to solve economic problems. He suggested they should leave status alone and consider the material consolidation of tli'h "Empire. The other three-quarters of ,tlu* world might well ask what we are doing with our quarter, and who could blame them?

Mr. Sculiin saiil he did not know yet what material advantage the conference Would yield. He hoped to emulate t he "cricketers and return with the “Ashes,” but not the ashes of burnt hopes:- This, the -oldest Parliament, recalled to him the newest Parliament at -Canberra, wlrero sheep grazed within a hundred yards of the front door, magpies sang on the roofs, and kookaburras laughed in the guifi trees, all typifying the peace and brotherly harmony within. Mr. Forties'said: “The constitutional question dot’s not concern us. We will ‘not tolerate separation from our kith.”

General Hertzog said the supremacy of the white man in Africa was essential if he was to retain his birthright of civilisation.

Mr. J. H. Thomas expressed the opinion that the conference would reach a unanimous decision in a few dnvs.