CONTROL OF WESTERN PACIFIC.
COMMISSIONER'S HEAD- . QUARTERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—OopjriEht, Sydney, January, 6. The "Daily Telegraph," commenting on the "Auckland . Star's" arguments in favour, of removing the headquarters of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific from Fiji to .Auckland, says:—"As far as wo know, no proposal for a change has been made by authority or with authoritative sanction. But why mako tlio transfer? The place to govern from is in the country governed. It is a reasonable aspiration, which in tho future may bloom into actuality, that tho Commonwealth should havo a Southern Pacific hegemony comprising all tho islands outsido Now Zealand's jurisdiction, but even in that event tho islands would ho administered from within. A Higu Commissioner living in Sydney or in Auckland, and making- periodical visits to his island domain, would cut such a figure as occasionally appears at a pub-) lie entertainment in Gilbertian opera.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1019, 7 January 1911, Page 5
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149CONTROL OF WESTERN PACIFIC. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1019, 7 January 1911, Page 5
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