DRAWING TO A CLOSE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 140, 24 March 1944, Page 3

DRAWING TO A CLOSE.

MR NASH’S VISIT TO LONDON. SOME INFLUENTIAL MEETINGS (Special Correspondent, N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, Mar. 23.

Mr Walter Nash’s visit to London is drawing to a close. In the last week he attended a meeting of the War Cabinet and talked with Lord Samuel and Sir Arthur Street, who is Permanent Under-Secretary for Air, with M. Van Elffens, who is Netherlands Foreign Minister, and with Sir Wilfred Eaby, of the Treasury.

Mr Nash stayed with Viscount and Lady Bledisloo and spent, three hours with Sir William Beveridge at. University College, Oxford. Sir William Beveridge was particularly interested in New Zealand social services and expressed the opinion that New Zealand had the greatest expectation of life due to the even “spread” of incomes. He gave Mr Nash statistics to prove it.

During the week-end Mr Nash gave addresses on New Zealand’s war effort to meetings in Abergavenny and Blaenavon, which was attended by many miners. Others with whom he talked in London include Air Commodore E. G. Olson, Brigadier R. S. Park and Mr J. G. Young (DirectorGeneral of the New Zealand post and telegraph service) who recently arrived from New Zealand to attend the Commonwealth Communications Council Conference. Mr Nash and Mr Young also conferred with Sir Campbell Stuart on communications.