EMPIRE PREMIERS ARRIVE

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1930, Page 7

EMPIRE PREMIERS ARRIVE

VISITS TO MR. MacDONALD : * •' ■. OPENING AT FOREIGN OFFICE U.K. DELEGATES ANNOUNCED LABOUR PREMIERS MEET British Wirelees. Rugby, Sept. 25. The' Australian Prime Minister, Mr. J. H. Scullin, who reached London last night to attend the Imperial 'Conference this morning, called on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to-day. Although the tyro Prime Ministers talked with one another at the official opening in the spring of the wireless telephone service between England and Australia, they had not met for 24 years. When on a tour of Australia Mr, MacDonald spoke, during the election at Ballarat, on behalf of a then unknown man named Scullin. The Newfoundland Prime Minister, Sir Richard Squires, also reached London last night. He called on Mr. MacDonald this afternoon.

During the Imperial Conference,' the British Corporation will, on Wednesday evenings, broadcast talks by some of the leading delegates. Mr. MacDonald will speak next Wednesday, and his remarks will-be relayed throughout America. The opening meeting of the conference on Wednesday afternoon will, be held in the,reception room at the Foreign Office, which is the one in which tho Locarno treaties were signed. It is more spacious than any available at the Prime Minister’s official residence.

The United Kingdom delegates will bo Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister; Mr. Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary; Mr. J. H. Thomas, Secretary for Dominion Affairs; Lord Passfield, Secretary for the Colonies; Lord Sankey, Lord Chancellor; Mr. William Graham, President of the Board of Trade. Sir William Jowitt, Attor-ney-General, and Mr. Pethick-Lawrence, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, will be in attendance.