IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18169, 6 November 1930, Page 8

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

MEETING OF THE HEADS. approval of reports. IMPORTANT RECOMMENDATIONS. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 4. The heads of the delegations to the •Imperial Conference made further progress to-day with final consideration of the constitutional aspects of interimperial relations. They also approved the reports of various committees including those on the Singapore base, war graves, and arbitration and disarmament.

The delegates generally were ir favour of improving the machinery for the peaceful settlement of all forms of international disputes.. The principle underlying the general Act' was approved, with reservations applying to disputes prior to the operation of the Act, and also to disputes in which lhe,\ pafties had agreed on other methods of peaceful settlement, and to disputes between members of the British Commonwealth nations.

The delegates- also agree that the’ draft disarmament convention offers a very excellent basis for progress and that 'everything possible should be done to cdll an actual disarmament conference as soon as possible. The Dominion delegates are also generally agreed on the desirability of the proposed 'amendments to the Covenant of the League of Nations, to harmonise with the Briand-Kcllogg treaty. The civil aviation committee recommends that the personnel of the existing liaison system should be placed on a more permanent basis, so that interchanges for periods of service could take place between the. administrative and technical air officers in the Empire, and that technical officers should confer for the purpose of evoking a permanent standard of airworthiness within the Empire.