IMPERIAL CONFRENGE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13424, 15 March 1907, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFRENGE.

A PROPOSAL TO SECURE CORPORATE CONTINUITY. United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. LONDON, March 14. Sir Frederick Pollock (the eminent jurist) has published in The Times a memo signed by the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Rutland, Lord Milner, Lord Tennyson, Lord Avebury, Sir John Colomb, Professor Schuster, Sir George Sydenham Clarke, the Hon. W. P. Reeves, and others, outlining the essential points on which a general agreement is possible regarding Imperial,organisation. ! The conclusions resemble those indicated in the Right Hon. A. Lyttelton's despatch, and suggest machinery enabling Colonial Conferences to acquire something in the nature of corporate continuity by the creation of a permanent Secretarial or Intelligence Department, and by the permanent representation of the Colonial Governments in London by High Commissioners and other specially appointed persons. The Times cordially endorses the general objects, but thinks the memo errs on the side of excessive vagueness, especially when referring to the permanent representation of the Colonies.