HEYER MORE NECESSARY

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1930, Page 7

HEYER MORE NECESSARY

1930 IMPERIAL CONFERENCE WIDE RANGE OF DISCUSSION OPENING NEXT WEDNESDAY MR. THOMAS’ CONFIDENCE British Wireless. Rugby, Sept. 22. The opening of the Imperial Conference, which will assemble in London next week, is awaited with keen interest. It is anticipated that the most important discussions will be those dealing- with economic questions, and their range will-be of the widest character. They will embrace tariff charges and the extent and effect of inter-imperial tariff preferences, bulk purchase, agricultural and industrial research and Empire transport and communications, including shipping, aviation, cables and wireless.

The Secretary for the Dominions, Mr. J. IL Thomas, referred to the completed problems before the conference in a speech at the wool research conference in London to-day. He added: “There never was an Imperial Conference held in more difficult circumstances, but equally there never was a conference that was more necessary. Each constituent part of the Empire is faced with its 'own domestic and economic problems. We in Britain are passing through a period unexampled in his‘tory. I have confidence, however, that the old spirit of grit and determination that saw the country through many of its difficulties in the past will pull US through. “At the Imperial Conference we shall sit, not with a desire to think for ourselves alone but with the single-minded desire to see how we can combine our brains and energies to make the best use of the Empire with its unlimited potentialities and possibilities for the common good of all.” It is officially announced that, as the Prime Minister of Canada will not be able to reach. London ; until September 30, the opening meeting of the conference has been deferred until October 1. CANADIAN PARLIAMENT RISING. DELEGATES FOR CONFERENCE. By Telegraph—Press Assn, —Copyright. Ottawa, Sept. 22. Parliament will be prorogued this afternoon after passing the Tariff Bill, permitting the Premier, Mr. R. B. Bennett, to proceed to the Imperial Conference. . Messrs. Guthrie, Stevens and Dupre will accompany Mr. Bennett to the Imperial Conference, as well as represent tatives of the wheat pool and western agriculture generally.