Fifteenth Day.
14 May 1907.
Fourteenth Day.
9 May 1907.
CHAIRMAN: Could we dispose of this in 10 minutes?
Mr. DEAKIN: I do not think so. I want to say some thing with regard to the interchange of officers and the questions arising out of that.
In the CHAIRMAN: Of course, I am in your hands entirely. despatch with regard to this Conference, it was assumed that the members coming from beyond the seas would wish to separate by the end of four weeks. We have now reached that point, and I have done my best to finish, and have brought you very near it. If, however, it is more convenient to finish by having another meeting, we can meet again on Monday morning.
Sir WILFRID LAURIER: I think it would be advisable.
Dr. JAMESON: Yes.
CHAIRMAN: General Botha will be gone; but I do not know that anybody else will.
Sir JOSEPH WARD: Is it understood that we close the Conference on Monday.
Dr. SMARTT: Would not Tuesday do instead of Monday, would it ?
CHAIRMAN: As far as I am concerned, I am entirely at your disposal,
as I have been throughout. Is Tuesday more convenient?
Sir WILFRID LAURIER: To me Tuesday and Monday are the days that would be convenient. Dr. Smartt has just expressed a preference for Tuesday, and I am willing to agree to that.
Sir WILLIAM LYNE: It would suit me much better, too.
CHAIRMAN: Then we will make it 11 o'clock on Tuesday.
Adjourned to Tuesday next at 11 o'clock'
FIFTEENTH DAY.
HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, DOWNING STREET, TUESDAY, 14TH MAY 1907.
PRESENT:
The Right Honourable THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G., Secretary of State for the Colonies (President).
The Right Honourable Sir WILFRID LAURIER, G.C.M.G., Prime Minister
of Canada.
The Honourable Sir F. W. BORDEN, K.C.M.G., Minister of Militia and
Defence (Canada).
The Honourable L. P. BRODEUR, Minister of Marine and Fisheries
(Canada).
The Honourable ALFRED DEAKIN, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth
of Australia.
The Honourable Sir W. LYNE, K.C.M.G., Minister of Trade and Customs
(Australia).
The Right Honourable Sir JosEPH WARD, K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of
New Zealand.
The Right Honourable Sir ROBERT BOND, K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of
Newfoundland.
The Right Honourable L. S. JAMESON, C.B., Prime Minister of Cape
Colony.
The Honourable Dr. SMARTT, Commissioner of Public Works (Cape
Colony).
The Right Honourable F. R. Moon, Prime Minister of Natal.
The Right Honourable WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, M.P., Parliamentary
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Sir FRANCIS HOPWOOD, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Permanent Under Secretary
of State for the Colonies.
Sir J. L. MACKAY, G.C.M.G., K.C.I.E., on behalf of the India Office.
Mr. H. W. JUST, C.B., C., Joint Secretaries.
Mr. G. W. JOHNSON, C.M.G.,
Mr. Wi A. ROBINSON,
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