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Mr. Baldwin: Mr. Prime Minister, I had managed successfully to forget all about my birthday but you have brought it back to me. What can I say on this occasion except that I will endeavour to keep every birthday in the future in this hospitable country. Mr. Bennett's original presentation was made upstairs in the presence of the delegates. When you asked my acceptance of this plate your words touched me profoundly and I spoke to you from my heart. To-day I would only thank you in public for that kind and generous thought, and also every member of the delegation who has been good enough to allow himself to be associated with it, and I may express the hope that nothing has occurred during the last month that makes the members of the delegation regret now that act of kindness and generosity. The Chairman: The next order of business on the agenda, I read, is '' closing addresses." I will now call upon you, Mr. Baldwin, to make your closing address, hoping that it is not the closing address which you will make in Canada. Mr. Baldwin: "Closing address" is a deceptive term. All that I have been asked to do at this stage is to move a resolution which I will now put: The Imperial Economic Conference desires to record its appreciation of the work accomplished by the chairmen and members of the committees and sub-committees which have been engaged in the discussion of the subjects referred to them. I can move that with a whole heart, as I was not the chairman of any committee or sub-committee. With your permission, Mr. Bennett, I will just add, although not strictly relevant to the terms of the resolution, one observation which otherwise I could not fit into the proceedings at all. The business on the last day of the Conference is of a very formal nature, and you will notice, gentlemen, that Mr. Bennett produced a printed volume of the proceedings of the Conference. He moved that it should be adopted and it has been adopted, but he did not tell you what I can tell you—and I have had some experience. The preparation of that voluminous report reflects immense credit on the Canadian secretariat. Let me say another word for a body of men who are sometimes overlooked: Let us not forget the work done by the printers who got that document ready in time for the meeting to-day. I beg to submit the resolution which I have just moved. Mr. Bruce: I have the very greatest possible pleasure in seconding the resolution which has been moved lay Mr. Baldwin, and I should like to associate myself very closely with him in what he has said with regard to the admirable work of the secretariat to this Conference. I have been privileged to attend three Imperial Conferences, and in doing so I have come to a, realization of the task of the secretariat, the typists, the printers and everyone associated with its daily work, and my admiration has increased as conferences have gone by. We all owe a very great and sincere debt of gratitude to them for all that they have clone. You, Mr. Chairman, have been good enough to entrust to me a resolution dealing with this subject, and if I might read it, it could then be added to the resolution which Mr. Baldwin has moved. This is the resolution I would propose:— The Conference desires to record its appreciation of the work performed by Dr. 0. D. Slcelton, Secretary of the Conference, and his able associates of the Conference Secretariat, whose efficient and faithful services have assured the successful administration of the proceedings of the Conference. I do not know what would be the proper procedure, but I am sure we should desire to move both these resolutions, and if I might move this one it might subsequently be added to the motion which Mr. Baldwin proposed. The Chairman: You have heard the motion moved by Mr. Baldwin and seconded by Mr. Bruce. Is it your pleasure that it be adopted? Motion agreed to. The Chairman: I would now ask Mr. Havenga to second the resolution which Mr. Bruce has moved.