MR. AMERY'S TOUR.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17218, 29 September 1927, Page 7

MR. AMERY'S TOUR.

VISIT TO AUSTRALIA. ABIDING RESULTS ANTICIPATED. SOME DIFFICULT QUESTIONS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) London, September 28. In official circles in London high hopes are being built upon the undoubted success of the mission of the Secretary of State for the Dominions, Mr L. S. Amery, in South Africa. There Mr Amery will take up a miscellany of important domestic issues For example, steps should now be in progress to select a successor to the Governor of South Australia, Sir Tom Bridges, but nothing will be done until Mr Amery has conferred with the South Australian Cabinet.

The opinions of the members of all the Australian Cabinets will be sough 1 by Mr Amery upon the question of State Governorships, noLably in the States which sent him a memorial urging Australian appointees. There is also the matter of a mission of financiers and industrialists from Britain to advise Australia upon migration development, as suggested by the Prime Minister, Mr S. M. Bruce, and adopted by Mr Amery, after the Imperial Conference. Although nothing his been officially announced, it is understood that it has not been possible to overcome the difficulty of the influential persons chosen for the mission all obtaining leave at the same time. Furthermore, there is the difficulty of obtaining an outstanding leader for.the proposed mission, which might prove the turning-point in Australia's problems. Consequently it will be impossible for a mission to go to Australia this year.

This does not mean that it is intended to abandon the scheme. No doubt Mr Amery and Mr Bruce will find occasion to discuss the difficulties and arrange for the carrying out of a plan even wider in range in 1928. Encouraged by the keenness which those who have been approached are manifesting there is marked feeling in London than Mr Amery, in view of recent comments concerning haifheartedness about migration, could not do better service than by calling a round-table conference to remove the difficulties and get the Commonwealth's £34,000,000 migration scheme moving properly.