TO REMAIN IN LONDON?

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 263, 7 November 1939, Page 6

TO REMAIN IN LONDON?

DOMINION SPECIALISTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. No action has so far been taken by the New Zealand Government in connection with thfe proposal that the specialists, attached to the British Ministerial delegations to London should remain there ae members of a permanent organisation to deal with war problems. A Loiulon cable message published this morning stated that it was not proposed to create a permanent Ministerial body in London, but that the specialists, including service officers and economic supply experts who accompanied the Ministers to Loudon, would remain as part of an enlarged staff and would act in conjunction with the High Commissioners.

New Zealand's official representative at the British Commonwealth Ministerial discussions, the Hon. P. Frasor, was accompanied to London by the permanent head of the Prime Minister's Department, Mr. C. A. Berendsen, and by the secretary of the Organisation for National Security, Colonel W. 0. Stevens.

"'No decision has been made," said the Minister of Finance, the. Hon. W. Xash, when asked this evening it" the proposal meant that either Mr. Rcrendsen or Colonel Stevens would be remaining in London after the conference of Ministers had finished.