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may face are merely the growing pains of a young giant, and the experience that we have gained here and the memories that we shall carry back with us will be treasured and will be of inestimable benefit. Mr. Sean T. O'Kellv: Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Irish Free State delegation I wish to join in the tributes that have been paid to you, as Chairman of this Conference. With all that has been said by the proposer and seconder of the motion and by other speakers as to your personal charm, your great efficiency and your remarkable cordiality, I wish to say that we of the Irish Delegation are in hearty accord. You have discharged a very delicate and difficult task to the complete satisfaction of all of us, and we are most sincerely grateful. At this closing meeting of the Conference, I deem it also my duty to thank profoundly the Canadian Government and people for the warm-hearted generosity and kindness which have characterized all their relations with us during this Conference at Ottawa. Nothing can ever make us forget our debt to Canada, and whatever changes the future may bring for us, one very certain result of the Conference as far as the Delegation of the Irish Free State is concerned is a determination to do everything in our power to create closer bonds of friendship between the Irish and Canadian people. I should like also to use this opportunity to express our gratitude and admiration for the efficiency and consideration of the Canadian Secretariat, under the guidance of Dr. Skelton and his two colleagues, Mr. Read and Colonel Coghill. Their patience, tact and zeal have been an example to us all, and their splendid handling of an exceedingly difficult undertaking has proved to us that the Canadian Civil Service is not surpassed by any other Civil Service in the world. A special word of gratitude and appreciation is also due from us to Mr. Lemaire, General McNaughton and their Hospitality Committee. Their efforts to make us feel completely at- home in Canada have been an unqualified success. Our parting prayer will be that God may prosper this Capital City and the Canadian Nation. Mr. Alderdice: Mr. Chairman, I am very pleased to have this opportunity of expressing my hearty concurrence in the motion so eloquently put by Mr. Baldwin, that you should be accorded a vote of thanks for the tactful and efficient manner in which you have conducted the proceedings of this Conference. I never had the slightest doubt of the ultimate success of this Conference, because I felt that the men who were sitting around this and many other boards, and who had all sorts of training and experience in their own particular Dominion, were bound to bring this Conference to a successful conclusion. The mere signing of these agreements, Mr. Chairman, is by no means the end of this Conference; it is no more than the beginning, and I hope that in due season we shall be having another Conference and it will bring the British Commonwealth of Nations still closer together. There is one word that I should like to put on record. The point I particularly desire to mention is the constructive side of the work of this Conference. Each member of the Empire is able, whether by its geographical position or by the special experience or aptitude of its people, to produce certain products with peculiar advantage of price or of quality, and if the results of this Conference give a wider and more steady market to each of these products we shall have clone a very great deal to strengthen the economic structure of each member of the Commonwealth and to stabilize economic conditions in the whole world. Now, Mr. Chairman, I want to say just one more word on behalf of the delegation from Newfoundland, as to the courtesy that has been extended to us at all times from your Civil Service. No matter what details we wished, no matter what documents we might want, they were at our disposition within a very few minutes. So far as hospitality is concerned, I think your Hospitality Committee could not have been run better or with more efficiency or more skill than they have demonstrated during our visit. As for the people of Canada, particularly those of Ottawa, their private hospitality I for one shall never be able to forget. And I do wish you, Mr. Chairman, a very successful term of office and if you feel that you would like another—well, I would say the same. Sir Atul Chatterjee: Mr. Chairman, it is a great pleasure, as well as an honour, to be associated with the motion which was so happily put by the Lord President of the Council. To you Mr. Prime Minister, we of the Indian Delegation owe most sincere acknowledgments for the uniform courtesy and consideration that you have shown to us always, both inside and outside the Con-