UNITED NATIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23387, 19 December 1945, Page 4

UNITED NATIONS

Meeting Of General Assembly Mr Fraser On His Way (N.Z.P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 18. “Our work in London will be to form a successor to the League of Nations,” said the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) in an interview in Auckland to-night. He added that while in London he would discuss informally the possible impact on New Zealand's trade of the new Anglo-American financial and trade arrangements. Mr Fraser is on his way to London to attend as New Zealand representative the first meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation. The main business will be the establishment of the Assembly and Security Council and also, possibly, the appointment of Economic and Social and Trusteeship Councils. “This meeting in London is really for the purpose of bringing into being the complete United Nations Organisation for establishing its machinery and for electing officers,” Mr Fraser said. “New Zealand will be a member of the Trusteeship Council by reason of agreeing to the mandated territory of Samoa being placed under the Trusteeship Council with is responsible to the Assembly. At the forthcoming Assembly meeting the object will be to bring into being the organisation approved in the Charter adopted at San Francisco and subsequently approved by the Parliament of New 7 Zealand. The Preparatory Commission has been operating for months now in London.” Tariffs and Import Control Asked if he intended raising the question of tariffs and import control following the Anglo-American negotiations just completed in Washington. Mr Fraser said he would do so without doubt. He w’ould probably discuss the matter with Sir Stafford Cripps and Dr. Hugh Dalton, as well as with the British Prime Minister. Mr C. R. Attjee. The prospect of a future meeting of representatives of the British Commonwealth of nations to discuss the whole question of the commercial policy proposals put forward by the United States, was mentioned by Mr Fraser. He said if such a meeting took place he thought the Minister of Finance and Customs (the Hon. W. Nash) would represent New Zealand. “Imperial preference has been an important matter for New Zealand and remains an important question, as does Import control,” Mr Fraser said. “Any modification of imperial preference would, in my 7 opinion, have to be accompanied by tariff adjustments in other countries.” Official Party Travelling with the Prime Minister are Mr A. D. Mclntosh, secretary for External Affairs, and Mrs Mclntosh, Miss J. R. McKenzie, official secretary to the New Zealand High Commissioner in Canberra, Mr W. O. Harvey, chief private secretary, Mrs H. Kemp, the late Mrs Fraser’s daughter-in-law, and Miss Monica Granville-Jones, who will join the official New 7 Zealand staff in London. On arrival in London the New Zealand delegation will be completed bv the addition of Dr. R. M. Campbell, acting New Zealand High Commissioner, and Mr J. V. Wilson, of the External Affairs Department. Mr Fraser expects to be away from New Zealand until late in February or possibly early in March. The Assembly meeting begins early in January 7. The party flew from Wellington to Auckland to-day and will leave Whenuanai to-morrow morning in tne Skymaster aircraft by the Pacific route. They will probably spend Christmas in Washington, and expect to reach London bv the New Year.