Adviser To Niue
Professor R. Q. QuentinBaxter has been appointed constitutional adviser to the Niue Island Assembly, and to the New Zealand Government, the Minister of Island Affairs (Mr Maclntyre) announced yesterday. Professor Quentin-Baxter, professor of jurisprudence and international law at the Victoria University of Wellington, was formerly an assistant secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was for some years closely associated with New Zealand's island territories and with Pacific affairs.
“New Zealand has always emphasised that it would not take any further steps to change Niue’s constitutional status unless requested to by the Government and people of Niue,” said Mr Maclntyre. “The question of constitutional development was raised in the Niue Assembly early this year, and members decided to get advice from the New Zealand Government on the different forms future development could take. “As a result, Mr QuentinBaxter was invited by the Niuean Assembly to give them the advice they need, and to go to Niue at a suitable time,” Mr Maclntyre said.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32392, 3 September 1970, Page 15
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