THE PRIVY COUNCIL
STATEMENTS IN COMMONS [ British Official Wireless ] RUGBY, Dec. 4. The Prime Minister, replying to a question, said that no communications on the subject of an alternative to the judicial committee to the Privy Council for the settlement of legal disputes between members of the British Commonwealth of Nations had been received from auy of his Majesty’s Governments in the Dominions. The whole subject could be most appropriately discussed at the next Imperial Conference. Mr Gillett (Parliamentary Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs) stated that the Consul-General of Shanghai reported that Mr Justice Feethani, of South Africa, had been asked whether in the event of the municipal council inviting him to act-, as their advisor for the purpose of examining the problem of muncipal reform in the international settlement in the light of Chinese aspirations, he would accept. Mr Gillett gathered from the Press that the invitation had been accepted. The Shanghai Municipal Council took this action without first consulting His Majesty’s Government. They explained to the Consul-General that they were anxious not to embarrass the British Government, and that for this reason the Government were not being asked to accept any responsibility in the matter.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 290, 6 December 1929, Page 10
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