SIR THOMAS MACKENZIE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 45, 17 November 1920, Page 7

SIR THOMAS MACKENZIE

ATtRIVED IN WET/T.TNGTON LAST NIGHT. Sir ihomas Mackenzie, ex-High Com-ir-issioner for New Zealand, reached Wellington aboard the Hemiiera yesterday. He and the other passengers (lid not set nsliore until after 8 o'clock. A DOMINION reporter found him in excellent iiealtn and spirits,. and obviously glad to Ret buck to liis own country After lus prolonged absence. Sir Thomas. Mackenzie was appointed High Commissioner in August. 1913, ?o :hat lio held the office for about seven years and a half. , Ho j.as been accompanied to New Zealand by Ladv Mackenzie. ; After retirin; from the High Cotumiseionership, Sir Thomas Mackenzie .accepted a trade mission lo the United States on behalf of the New. Zealand Government, and lie has a report to present to the Government.. In the courso of a brief 'conversation !net night, he indicated that 1m would. have something to pay shortly regarding Nlsw Zealand jiroduce and other'matters ci interest lo the people of this country. It was tr'early to speak of his owp plans. He expected to be in Ellington for a few oiivs and he would then go Fouth. A number of people Kiul assembled on the wharf to meet Sir Thomas Maokeu--4 z J e ana ,ne.: woe fitted witlf a l.iearfrr cheer as he walked down the gangway.