IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1930, Page 7

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

LACK OF CEREMONIAL AT OPENING - - ECONOMIC ISSUES EMPHASISED a THREE MAIN ASPECTS. REVIEWED By Telegraph—Press Assn.--Copyright. . ' London, October 1. Shorn of the glqmour of a ceremonial opening, the Imperial Conference assembled at 10 o’clock in the Locarno room of the Foreign Office, almost unnoticed as far as the public was concerned. For six weeks the only link with the public will be the formal daily Press communiques and pdriiaps an occasional talk by Mr. J. H. Thomas, if the conference to-day agrees to his proposals that he should be Press; liaison officer. — ‘ Mr. Ramsay Macflonald welcomed the delegates and reviewed the principles before the conference. Conspicuous among the replies were the speeches.of Mr. J. H. Scullin (Australia) and General Hertzog (South Africa). . ;