ANOTHER TERM

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 52, 30 August 1945, Page 8

ANOTHER TERM

MR. W. J. JORDAN

N.Z. HIGH COMMISSIONER

The reappointment of Mr. W. J. Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom since 1936, for a further period of three years from September 1 was announced today by the Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs (Mr. Fraser). "I should like to take this oppftrtunity," said Mr. Fraser, "to pay a warm and sincere tribute to Mr. Jordan's very fine record of service to New Zealand throughout his nine years of office.

"In the years before the war Mr. Jordan represented New Zealand at Geneva and advocated the New Zealand Government's policy of .collective resistance to aggression," continued Mr. Fraser. "When war came he threw himself into the task of maintaining the closest collaboration between New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The war years have been for Mr. Jordan, as for the other members of the High Commissioner's staff and all those whose duty kept them in London, a period of great stress and strain. As a result of the long periods of bombing, life was a nerve-racking and hazardous business. Nevertheless, throughout all this time Mr. Jordan never let these conditions obscure his sense of duty towards, and his deep affection for, the men who left their families and friends in this country to fight overseas.

WORK FOR SERVICEMEN.

"Mr. Jordan was always to be found in his place of duty in London except when he was visiting ships and camps and air stations, talking to New Zealanders, finding out their needs, or arranging for their comfort. Thousands of New Zealand servicemen will remember with appreciation friendly meetings with Mr. and Mrs. Jordan and in particular the High Commissioner's ready assistance with their problems, large and small.

"When Mr. and Mrs. Jordan arrive in New Zealand in a few weeks' time I know they will be warmly welcomed, and that they will feel the affection which New Zealand has 'for a High Commissioner who has represented this country with dignity and ability at some of the most important meetings during the War years, and one who has, by his sincerity and unassuming ways, won respect and good will among the British people."