CANADIAN POLITICS.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16750, 17 March 1926, Page 7

CANADIAN POLITICS.

MR KING TAKES HIS SEAT. ESTIMATES INTRODUCED. (Reuter.) OTTAWA, March 15. The Prime Minister, Mr W. L. Mackenzie King, took his scat in the. House of Commons to-day for Ihe (hit time this session. He announced that the Brilish Government could not sec its way clear to 'agree to the publication of the correspondence with the Dominion in regard tc the Treaty of Locarno.

The view taken was that the correspondence in question contained confidential communications concerning the attitude of foreign Governments. The British Government was prepared to allow the publication of that part of the correspondence which dealt with the holding of the next Imperial Conference.

Replying to a request for a statement of the Government's policy in regard to the Treaty of Locarno Mr King said if would be better not to discuss it while the League of Nations was meeting at Geneva. The main Estimates for the next fiscal year were brought clown by the Finance Minister, Mr J. A. Robb. These amounted lo £60,154,270 for Government services, a decrease of £1,1130,534 compared with last year. The Railway Estimates totalled £6.200,000, a decrease of £5,800.000.

It was announced that an operating lrss nf £28,176 was sustained in 102-1 by the Government on its mercantile marine fleet of 44 vessels.