SCANT COURTESY

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 225, 21 September 1915, Page 6

SCANT COURTESY

TO A GENEROUS OFFER. SIR GEORGE REID EXPLAINS. ■ | LONDON, September.2o. i The "Daily I liromcle' publishes a [message i: ,vi it.- Melbourne correspond--1 ' .-ni stating tint the infer :na l e by Sir | j Geurg" Roil lo eont.mie in o!h .- as Australia:! Il.gii Cmmuu-onrr till the end 'oi tile war without .-alary ha., greatly m-,,■:.-.-d th- F.-leral Ministers, partly bein—' they boil tn.it il implie = trie sug- ' I ge-ti,.-.', Cv! Australia is impecunious. 1 Mr. r'__cr, I'rirne _Lni_tcr lor Australia, -,i.i it was a _n_takc for ißj otlirial to place Australia in The category I r,f a petitioner for, relief. - The I "Chronicle' adds that Mr. Futier i» geni orally r^jar-1-i as Sir Gc-orge Rand's ' probable J-i. e.ssor. In an interview Sir George Reid said jbe .aii.-i ti tl-r in these terms; 'The nn r.-a.-.i.g gravity vi the situation and 'I the certainly teat critic—l times are I iahead which will test t-o the utmost the I bust statesmanship at the heim of pohV 1 j toal alTa.r- ba.. prompted mc to cotiI Bidcr what 1 ,-an do at the prcoient crisis 'i to show my gral.tadc to the CommonV wealth and mv willingness to help. May 'kl oiler the Government, without intra--'I sion or otfencc, my si-rvo.s-s in London r I until the end of the w_r without salaryf" "Now." Sir George Rcid said, "1 can- • j nt.-* bsdi.-ve tiiat Amstraii—n Ministers ' will r.-gard the ofTer as an aspersion oa "the financial soundnc—s of th- Lommonr | wealth. During a life nobody has ' I done mor. to vin.iacate Australia's ma - -' 1 nificent tinanciaJ position than I have. c ! Nobody ever dreamt of regarding Lord J i Stratbcona's ..tier to servo Cu—ada with"lout saiarv a» nn _sporsi,j.n on Canada's ( 'i financial resource, or as putting Canada 1' in the j.os.tu.n of a petitioner for rslief- ' I The point of mv ofier wo_ th_t At_"|tralia's I.— !- iron-and it U incredible ' | that an inferior man would be appointed "(High Commissioner—shotild_»ll be left lf fret- lo .-,-rvc her where she c _n best be, '(served in the present crisrs, namely, in P i \astral.u. I supposed my oiler would "I enable that to be dene ' The help I "ollerod was not £3000 a year, but my '"' | services. I added the ricit. n,it as-an act ' „f financial relief, but a., a slight proof 'of mv per-onal gratitude and goodwill, 1 I feelings v -'"'ti niii.odv grudged to the r late High Commissioner for Canada-"