HIGH COMMISSIONER

Evening Star, Issue 23021, 28 July 1938, Page 13

HIGH COMMISSIONER

APPOINTED, TO NEW ZEALAND BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S NEW POLICY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 27. , (Received July 28, at 10 a.m.) Sir Harry Batterbee has been appointed British High Commissioner in New Zealand in accordance with the Government’s policy of developing the system of consultation and communication between England and the dominions. Sir Harry Batterbee will leave England in time to take up his new post at the end of the present year.' [Sir Harry Batterbee has been Assistant Under-Secretary of State Dominions Office, since 1930. He was born in 1880, and was educated at Oxford. He entered the Colonial Office in 1905, and was Political Secretary to the Duke of York during his Australian and New Zealand tour.] [Our parliamentary reporter telegraphs; The appointment of a High Commissioner for New Zealand was referred to by the Prime Minister today, who said that New Zealand would now be in the same position as Australia, Canada, and South Africa. The appointment was made by the British Government with the concurrence _of New Zealand, the question having been discussed when ho (Mr Savage) was in England. He anticipated that Sir Harry Batterbee would arrive about the end of the year. He would represent the British Government directly in all negotiations with the New Zealand Government.]