A NEW DEPARTMENT.
PRAISE FROM LONDON. LONDON, January 19. The "Times" commends the appointment by the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. J. G. Coates) of Mr. F. D. Thomson to the position of permanent head of the new Prime Minister's Department. The paper says: — "Without continuous consultations between Britain and the Dominions the doGtrine of equality of status becomes unreal and almost ' meaningless. Dispatches sent to the Dominions from Downing Street these days do not err in the direction of under-statement. The information supplied is so full and formidable that when affairs nearer home are pressing it is fatally easy for what may apparently be a routine document from London to be first pigeon-holed and then overlooked." The article reviews the experiments of Australia, and Canada in a similar direction. It adds: "There is no reason why all the Dominions should adopt precisely the same methods for keeping in touch with the Mother Country. Indeed, it is probably by variety in their experiments that the best system is most likely to be reached."—("Times."!
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1926, Page 7
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174A NEW DEPARTMENT. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1926, Page 7
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