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in China in 1948. As a State politically and geographically concerned in Far Eastern affairs, New Zealand was invited to attend, and the New Zealand delegation to the Conference held at New Delhi from 27th October, 1947, to Bth November, 1947, was as follows : Government delegates— Mr. E. B. Taylor, Assistant Secretary of Labour. Mr. L. S. Dixon, Kesearch Officer, Department of Labour and Employment. Employers' delegate — Mr. J. R. Hanlon, Assistant Secretary, New Zealand Employers' Federation. Workers' delegate— Mr. A. B. Grant, Secretary of the Canterbury Trades Council. The following items were on the agenda : I. Problems of Social Security. 11. Labour Policy in General, including the Enforcement of Labour Measures. 111. Programme of Action over a period of Years for the Enforcement of Social Standards embodied in the Conventions and Recommendations adopted by the International Labour Conference, but not yet ratified by the Countries concerned. IV. The General Economic Background of Social Policy, including Problems of Industrialization. V. Report of the Director-General. Owing to the preparatory nature of the Conference the decisions reached were not expressed in the form of conventions and recommendations. The following resolutions were passed: — (a) Resolution concerning the Intensification of the Asian Work of the International Labour Organization. (b) Resolution concerning Labour Standards in Japan. (c) Resolution concerning Tripartite Organizations and other Appropriate Arrangements. (d) Resolution concerning Increased Production. (e) Resolution concerning Seafarers. (/) Resolution concerning the Economic Policies necessary for the Attainment in Asia of the Social Objectives of the International Labour Organization. (g) Resolution concerning Industrial Development in Japan. {h) Resolution concerning Representation of Agricultural and Cottage Industry Workers. (i) Resolution concerning the Placing of 1.L.0. Conventions and Recommendations before the National Legislatives. (j) Resolution on Social Security. (k) Resolutions on Labour Policy. (I) Resolution concerning Programmes of Action (for Progressive Application of Existing International Labour Standards). (m) Resolution concerning" Statistics. (3) The Governing Body of the 1.L.0. decided at its one hundred and second Session to reconstitute the Correspondence Committee on Social Insurance, which had been set up in earlier years in order that the office might have available for consultation in case of need a body of experts who would be in touch with its work on social insurance and competent to advise it on any problems which might arise. The new Committee

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