CONFERENCE ON MIGRATION

Southland Times, Issue 23310, 21 September 1937, Page 6

CONFERENCE ON MIGRATION

LORD GALWAY TO WATCH DOMINION’S INTERESTS (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 20. An important conference on migration is to be held at the Guildhall, London, on October 11. A few weeks ago a letter was despatched to Lord Bledisloe by the chairman of the Dominion Settlement Association asking him at the conference to represent a group of New Zealand organizations interested in migration. A cablegram has just been received by Mr A. Leigh Hunt, chairman of the association, in which Lord Bledisloe states that he will gladly comply with the request. The organizations which will be thus represented are the Dominion Settlement Association, the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, the Women s Division, the Salvation Army of New Zealand, the Wellington Employers’ Association, the Y.M.C.A. of New Zealand, the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Association, the New Zealand Drapers’ Federation, the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, the Wellington Agents of the Licensed Victuallers Association of New Zealand, the Farmers’ Co-operative Wholesale Federation of New Zealand _ (80 branches), the New Zealand Institute of Architects, the Wellington Private Hotelkeepers’ Industrial Union of Employers, the English-Speaking Union, the Wellington Manufacturers’ Associa. tion (Inc.), the New Zealand Football Association, the New Zealand Electrical Traders’ Federation, and the United Kingdom Manufacturers and New Zealand Representatives’ Association.