LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18024, 20 May 1930, Page 9

LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

DOMINION UNION CONFERENCE REMITS TO BE SUBMITTED. The executive committee of the Hamilton branch of the League of Nations Union has approved of the following remits from various branches to be submitted at the annual conference of the union in New Zealand at Timaru in June. Believing- that the World Conference for international peace through religion will make a real contribution towards obtaining world peace and that it is therefore in harmony with the principal aim of the League of Nations, this annual conference of the Dominion League of Nations Union of New Zealand desires to express its sympathy with the proposal to hold a World Conference, and its willingness to co-operate by help ing to draw together a committee for the purpose of appointing the members of the conference allotted to New Zealand. That the branches he recommended to approach women's institutes, leagues of mothers, and similar organisations with a view to inducing them to link up with the League of Nations Union either as corporate bodies or through individual members. . That with a view to increasing the knowledge of the League's activities suitable literature should be supplied to the various missions for seamen throughout New Zealand and where possible to do so, speakers should he 1 ermitted to' address the members there. That it be a recommendation to the various branches to pan a concerted effort to increase the membership of the League of Nations Union throughout the Dominion. That all branches of the union during the course of the next year make an organised canvass of members of all the churches and similar bodies in their vicinity either by direct deputation or by enlisting the ministers or other leaders as agents in the enrolment of new members. That the (Jovernment of New Zealand be again urged to carry out the duties undertaken by the signatories if the Treaty of Versailles, namely to lay before the appropriate legislative authority, all the conventions of the international Labour organ. That-the conference take into consideration the possibility of encouraging the “affiliation” and “corporate membership” of industrial organisations on the lines suggested in the -report of the Otago branch founded on the circular prepared by the British League of Nations Union. Dominion Dependencies. That the standards of administration and the methods of the mandatory system he. applied by the Government of New Zealand in relation to all the dependencies under its care. The dependencies are: Under mandatory. system, Western Samoa and Nauru; not as yet under this system, Cook Islands, Campbell Islands, Union Group, Ross Dependency.