PACIFIC COLONIAL POWERS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22789, 13 January 1944, Page 3

PACIFIC COLONIAL POWERS

Conference At Canberra

STRONG DELEGATION FROM DOMINION

(N.Z.P.A.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 12. The conference between representatives of the Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments, which is to be held in Canberra next week, was referred to this morning by the Prime

Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) on his arrival in Auckland as head of the New Zealand delegation. Mr Fraser again expressed the belief that there was no likelihood of any difficulty or differences arising among the Pacific Colonial Powers of the United Nations as to the full acceptance basis of the principle of trusteeship which had, in fact, formed the basis of British colonial policy, and certainly of New Zealand's policy in relation to the Pacific peoples under her own control for many years. There was everything to be said for mutual agreement on the question. When it came to the form under which the principle of trusteeship and security might be guaranteed, other countries were no doubt keeping open minds the same as New Zealand.

The personnel of New Zealand's delegation to Canberra is the Prime Minister and Minister of Externa! Affairs and Island Territories (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser), the PostmasterGeneral and Minister of Labour (the Hon. P. C. Webb), the Minister of Defence and Civil Aviation (the Hon. F. Jones), the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr B. C. Ashwin), the Secretary of the External Affairs Department (Mr A. D. Mclntosh), a member of the Prime Minister’s Department and formerly New Zealand representative in French Oceania (Mr R. T. G. Patrick), the Deputy Chief of Air Staff (Air Commodore A. de T. Nevill, C.B.E.’. Mr C. A. Berendsen, formerly head of the Prime Minister’s Department and now High Commissioner for New Zealand in Australia, will join the delegation on its arrival in Sydney. Mrs Fraser will accompany the Prime Munster.