HIGH COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 37, 13 February 1931, Page 61

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE.

Mr. David Jones, M.P., cut an undignified figure "when he complained in Parliament of Ms treatment in London by the High Commissioner, and his position is not improved by Sir Thomas Wilford's reply and his rejoinder. Such a dispute is not worth Parliament's time or a newspaper's space, but wo do think it worth "while to use it to draw attention to the 'very satisfactory service that the High Commissioner's office gives, year in and year out, to New Zealanders as a body. The office is often criticised, and we fear some New Zealanders have formed quite an erroneous and unjust idea of its services and its staff. It serves New Zealand capably in many ways, and not at an excessive cost, but we are concerned here mainly-with the help it gives to visiting New Zeulanders. These travellers find in New Zealand House a home away, from home, where they are assisted in numerous ways by a competent, obliging and courteous staff, and can keep. in touch with New Zealand affairs. Thousands of New Zealanders have good reason to be grateful for cheerfully given help that has done much to make their visit to England pleasant, and it is only fair to the High' Commissioner and his hard-worked staff that this should be said.