D.o.:iii. ' No. f*- r2°/jj' Subject : Aeoe 29 mm Reference to previous correspondence:-* - • With the compliments of A copy has also been sent to -"4 ~4cu^**> Dominions Office, Downing Street, 193 2 8 APR W39 JXl 6.000 2m n A Br OpMO Awn) wt Suaoow mm Telegram HE. i iMLMld i?roia the United Kingdom lii$i COraaissionor in How Zealand. Jated 26th ^pril ,1939 deceived at 2.51 o.ra. 26th Aprils 1*0.107. Addressed to the dominions Office No.l07 Hi#i Commissioner Canberra Ko.27 Acting Hi$i Commissioner for the : ostein Pacific No.27 His [fejSstyfc Ambassador at Washington. Pacific defence Conference concluded today .Vednesday, 2, jtatement to this effect issued to the press hero mentioned also that it was agreed to recommend to the throe Governments that it was desirable that similar ^onforonces be arranged periodically in the Jouth /est Pacific area. 3. Primd Minister has cemented to the press as follows. Begins;- Conference was highly successful and had given the Heiv Zealand Government a line for action that they could have got in no other way. She proceedings v/ore from the very nature of the Agenda confidential ana could be not/divulged. Moreover its conclusions are in the nature of recommendations-frr the Governments concerned and it follows that nothing can be said about them until thoy have been considered by the Governments but this can be said at onco: thoy are regarded as entirely satisfactory to How Zealand delegation ana there is reason to believe to other delegations also. Hot only are the recommendations in the , , opinion of the liew Zealand delegation valuable in themselves but equally valuable is the opportunity thftt; has boon afforded for a full and frank interchange of views ana the spirit of mutual goodwill and understanding (^ndered)s o Qn>>endored by discussions « Tho dominating note of all the concluding spoooh was tho determination of the free count rios to co-operate in all defence measures to tho utmost of their power and to stand together in support of the principles oh which tho British Commonwealth of Hat ions is founded « BndSg