FURTHER PROGRESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 7

FURTHER PROGRESS

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE' CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS EMITRE AIR SERVICES. (British Official Wireless.) Rec. noon. RUGBY, Nov. 4. The heads of delegations to the Imperial Conference, made further progress to-dav with final consideration of the constitutional aspects of inter-imperial relations, and also approved the reports of various committees, including those on the Singapore base, war graves, and arbitration and disarmaiucnt. In regard to the last-mentioned, the delegates generally favor improving the machinery for a peaceful settlement of all forms of international disputes. The principle underlying the general act was approved with reservations applying to disputes prior to the accession of the act, and also disputes in which the parties agree on other methods of peaceful settlement, and disputes between members of the British commonwealth of nations.

The delegates also agree that the draft disarmament convention offers a very excellent basis for progress, and that everything possible ! should be . done to call Hie. actual disarmament • conference as soon as possible. The Dominion delegates also are generally agreed on the desirability of tho proposed amendments to the League covenant to harmonise with the Kellogg part. . The civil aviation committee of tho conference reviewed tho progress of lm perial air communications with heavier-Iban-nir craft since the last conference, and was impressed with the commercial and political advantages of developing and speeding them up still iurther. Some expressed the view that the next stage, which will bo the opening next year of a regular service between England and South Africa, would be followed by the extension of the weekly air service between .England and India to Australia. It was recommended that when the facilities offered are equal, preference be given to Empire air routes in the matter of trial air mails. It was also recommended that the personnel of the existing liaison system be placed on a more permanent basis, and that interchange for periods ol service could take place, between administration and technical ail officers in the Empire, and that technical officers should confer for the purpose of evoking a permanent standard of airworthiness within the Empire. . In view of the inquiry into the-KlUi the committee had no recommendations to make regarding airships.