SIR JOHN BAIRD

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 20 May 1925, Page 5

SIR JOHN BAIRD

SELIcTiOrJ COMMENDED

STUbEN^ OF D'OkINION PROBLEMS.

(BSITED PRESS ASSOCiATibNiCOPIRIdHT.)

UOSIKALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) ...LONDON, 19th May. The "Daily Telegraph".states, that Sir Johii Bairct's ■ appointment -was a siii.'prise to his colleagues in the House of Coninib'h^ Ills name 1 was submitted along with others to tlie' CdiiuHdh\<'e'alth', which selected Sit. jqhii, J3ail;d; The . "Daily, Tiilegrapn" , says .e<iitoridll j , that: "The , Goveriidr-Geheralsh'ip is not an affiiir of riierb pomp jiiid' circumstances, ncir is a .famous name-or an ancient i-itl^ de'hiahded.. Biit tHe Dominions do heed men who have studied the .problems -which disturb the Empire aM t the.world., Mr:. Bruce . and. the Gove'rnhiehfc and people of Australia have in Sir John Biiird ope' whose opinion's will be' weli-jiifpriiied anil Valuable, one Til-lib is not likely to ignore the le'sSbri.s of the Old World or under-estimato' llio demands df new cbhditibris." The Post", cdinjiiends the appoitilmeht ill view of Sii- John Baird's practical, kiioivkdgf o£ Australiaii p.rbblems and liis rebutiitibii its an' administrator. The "Pos(i" hdds: ','lhese-pro-consulsHibs ai'e iio longer tho sole responsibility of; any Government I)epartiHaifc^t Hbui?. They arc ■ realiy an. pdiritmehte liijitlo. jointly by ColoniaJ G'ffice and the, pbm'inioiv .concerned."