The New Zealand Prime Mi ter, accompanied by Mrs. Forbes} and party, left London yesterday for a short visit to the battlefields of France. They will also visit Paris before joining the liner Ormonde at Toulon for New Zealand.
The Dominions Secretary, Mr. J. H. Thomas, was present to bid them good-bye—Wireless through Reuter, troduction into the bill of a provision stipulating that on the day when excess profits permitted the distribution to shareholders of a net dividend double that of 1929, the new convention would be used for dividing the surplus.
This. proposition was lost by six Yotes to five. The Commission decided in favour of the report presented by the Colonial Commission.
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