The Colonial Conference. (Hansard, 3 August 1905)

HC Deb 03 August 1905 vol 151 c77 77

§ MR. CROMBIE
I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any communications have passed between him and the Colonial Premiers as to the meeting of a Colonial Conference next year.

§ MR. LYTTELTON
No, Sir. Such communications as have passed have been of quite a general character, based on the assumption that the Resolution of 1902 would lead to the reassembly of a Colonial Conference.

§ MR. CROMBIE
Will you lay them on the Table?

§ MR. LYTTELTON
Not at present.

§ MR. BUCHANAN (Perthshire, E.)
Has no invitation yet been issued?

§ MR. LYTTELTON
No, Sir.

§ MR. LLOYD - GEORGE (Carnarvon Boroughs)
Will a formal invitation be issued, or will it be assumed that the Premiers will come?

§ MR. LYTTELTON
An invitation was, I think, issued on a previous occasion several months before the holding of the Colonial Conference.

§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGE
And no formal invitation has yet been sent?

§ MR. LYTTELTON
No.

§ MR. LOUGH (Islington, W.)
How many mouths was it sent out beforehand?

§ [No Answer was returned.]