HIGH COMMISSIONER TO INDIA

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30863, 23 September 1965, Page 1

HIGH COMMISSIONER TO INDIA

(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON,

September 22.

The Prime Minister (Mr Holyoake) tonight announced the appointment of Mr James Esmond Farrell as High Commissioner for New Zealand in India. Mr Farrell, who was born in Ashburton, is a barrister and solicitor in an Oamaru firm. He was educated at St. Thomas’s Academy, Oamaru, Sacred Heart College. Auckland, and Canterbury University College, where he graduated bachelor of laws. In World War II he served with the R.N.Z.A.F. Mr Farrell has had a lifelong interest in international

affairs. He has studied European and Atlantic organisations in the United States, Britain, and Europe and has lectured extensively on this subject. Mr Farrell has also been a radio speaker on European and Commonwealth affairs, and has been a contributor to the “Law Journal.” Mr Farrell is the president of the Oamaru branch of the Royal Overseas League and an associate member of the British Atlantic Committee and the British Society for International Understanding. Mr Farrell is a member of the Dominion Council of the National Party. He is a steward of the Oamaru Trotting Club and a member of the committee.

Mr Farrell is married with three sons and one daughter. He succeeds Mr F. H. T. de Malmanche who left New Delhi in March of this year.