DOMINION PREMIERS VISIT CLYDESIDE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18045, 4 January 1927, Page 4

DOMINION PREMIERS VISIT CLYDESIDE.

(Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON. November 26. In rain and mist, Mr Bruce (Prime Minister of Australia), Mr Coates (Prime Minister of New Zealand), Mr Monroe (Prime Minister of Newfoundland), and the Maharajah of Burdwan, and their parties, visited Clydeside) yesterday. Mr Coates arrived from Edinburgh by an early train and with Sir Hugh Reid, of the North British Locomotive Works, and Sir John Hunter, cf Sir j John Arroll and Co., visited these l works. The Maharajah of Burdwan ‘ called on Lord Provost Mason in the i forenoon, and Mr Bruce and Mr Monroe spent a few hours at Messrs John Brown's yard at Clydebank, where two Australian cruisers are building. Later in the afternoon the party attended a reception at the University, and their visit concluded with a civic reception in the City Chambers.• j At the luncheon following the inspection of the cruisers, Lord Aberconway, chairman of John Brown's, expressed the firm's appreciation of the visit. Their connection, with Australia went back thirty-six years, and he hoped that now they were building again for Australia it would weld more closely the link between them. Mr Monroe appealed for a British market for Newfoundland’s iron ore. Their mines were the largest in the world, but England was going to Sweden for iron ore.