HIGH COMMISSIONER'S DEPARTMENT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18242, 28 November 1924, Page 15

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S DEPARTMENT.

V. . . >HON. G. J. SMITH SEEKS KNOWLEDGE. A" (no* OTtt OW* COBMMfOWMHTt-) Jfr ' LONDON, October 16. -Jrom many wild statements made in fb.House of Representatives and in- ; ..Council, it is evident 'ftriaome members are quite ignorant Jtsßi# work done by the High CommisjMMji Department in London. Even jsaewbo have a clearer of are often tempted to critiSt# Government Institution, of iwr < workings they know absolute y tithing. It is an old story how public in London, bent on explainsStW the Department should be run, ||kl!etiarn to .New Zealand wiser and flMer men. ~: however, do not' take the 'J&Me to find out for themselves what J&% ingoing on'in all theivarious secof sthe Office, in \vhich some 116 Kflfe are employed. The Hon. Gr. Jwtkj M.L.C., has not made this I ® lS " {%■ There is reason to believe that s*&ived in London rather unenlightss to the efficiency of the New Office here. In future, when J?Eigh Commissioner's Department'is passed in the Legislative .Council he in- a better position to spread Sjgatenmerit amongst his colleagues, gj.is wliat Mr Smith has to say conthe Department: fF* called on Sir James Allen, who i»e a most cordial reception. In | OTif the criticism of the High ComjPjjNier'a Office I enquired what on IWr y were doing with a staff of |* Pfopk, and Sir James Allen and ST Alexander Crabb (the Secretary to g£"®partment) very kindly took me .the whole building. I was m--Is®®™ to the heads of the different and had the work they •SSMomg explained to me. So far as while I thought that some miglit be made, the ® Offiee ia satisfactorily run. naturally interested in the « the record of the war graves and in order to test thc cf--1 gave two names of soldiers fa'jv8 t '4Ve3 I bad visited, and both Ail? Were turned up in less than Any of the parents or England can get the and assistance from Hi p Juration Department, under Ht'i ° a ? d ford, also struck sic a3 ■ jjrgiaraedingly we jj run) tlie great--1 taken to get only the .best RHw ™ u gh there are undoubted- ■ i 6* ItW S through who ought to B this end. Howetver, as a ■ ?? r Sponsible for passing B'&inf '^ a man does not have ■ Pfflfe 1 i nt °* me J it is not always be is an epileptic!' fi reform! 8 branch °f tbe Migration ■ If' 18 very capably managed, ■ building," Mr Smith KfH' rwhijsfc very central, does mmmJ"}- 18 very easily missed BS® f V too small for all the Wjggjf the Department."