IMPERIAL CABINET

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14669, 4 June 1921, Page 5

IMPERIAL CABINET

MR MASSEY’S VIEWS HOLDING 0* TO WAR GAINS. THE REPARATION PAYMENTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, June 2. Mr W. F. Massey is negotiating in regard to the wool difficulty and New Zealand’s share of flic profits. The matter revolves round the interpretation of the agreement with the Imperial authorities, and the negotiations are likely to occupy several weeks. Mr Massey also had a conversation with officials on the question of'New Zealand’s share on the reparation payments. Mr Massey is at present disinclined to comment on Professor Hall’s contention in regard to the definition of tile Dominions’ status until the definitions of the various overseas States are laid before the Conference, which is the proper place to thrash out the whole subject. Mr Massey strongly realises the value of the position gained through the war by the admission of .overseas representatives to the Imperial Cabinet. Any attempt to secure a more rigid definition of status would result in diminished elasticity between the various Empire units, and might even lose what had already been gained and the Empire thrown back to prewar conference days, which were more or less of an academic character. Mr Massey dines with Mr Lloyd George to-night, and attends the Rhodes scholars’ dinner at Oxford on June 11.