READY FOR OTTAWA

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 376, 18 March 1932, Page 1

READY FOR OTTAWA

Delegates announced by Mr MacDonald. IMPORTANT CONFERENCES. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 18, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, March 17. The Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons to-day a provisional list of delegates to the Ottawa Conference and the Lausanne Conference. He said that the Government had to be represented practically simultaneously at three most important conferences this summer—the Disarmament Conference at Geneva, the Conference at Lausanne, opening in June, and the Imperial Conference at Ottawa in July, Any announcement must depend on the claims made upon the services of Ministers during the summer. The delegation for Geneva was known. The representatives of the Government at Ottawa would t>e as follows: The Secretary for the Dominions, Mr J. 11. Thomas. The Secretary for the Colonies, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister. The President of the Board of Trade, the Hon Walter Runciman. A representative of »the Ministry of Agriculture. Subject to Government business considerations, the Lord President of the Council, Mr Stanley Baldwin, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Neville Chamberlain, and the Secretary for War, Lord Hailsham, would also attend. At the Lausanne Conference the Government would be represented by the Prime Minister, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Sir John Simon and Mr Walter Runciman, if advisable, and possibly the services might be utilised of Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir Samuel Hoafe, or a representative of the Dominions Office.