COLONIAL OFFICE,

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 November 1924, Page 9

COLONIAL OFFICE,

NO LONGER APPROPRIATE. ANGLO-DOMINIONS RELATIONSHIPS. SUGGESTED REFORMS. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Nov. 12, 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 11. “The. time is over-ripe for the frank recognition that the Colonial Office is no- longer the appropriate channel for the Dominions’ business,” says the Times. “The problem of Anglo-Domin-ions’ relationship can only be solved by the adoption of the established principles implied in the Dominions’ status to the existing machinery. Mr L. C, Alaary, whose first-hand knowledge of the Dominions enables him to realise the importance of the overdue reform, would now be best employed in preventing any infringement of the status tlie Dominions won, seeing that the Dominions have not forgotten any Cabinet decision concerning them. The Dominions should cease knocking at the open door and come right in anci use their opportunity by replacing the administrators by diplomats and appointing ambassadors instead of Agents-General, enabling Britain to adopt a more consistent attitude to the Dominions’ representatives. Such reorganisation should he based on the development of the Imperial Conference into a council of equal nations represented by Premiers and eliminating the Colonial Office as the focus of the self-governing Empire, diverting the Dominions’ correspondence to the Prime Minister. If Mr Amery can persuade the Dominions that their weight in world affairs depends on the quality of their representatives in London he may eliminate the attempts to more closely define Anglo-Dominions relationship.”—Sun. ' ' .