LEAVING FOR ENGLAND.

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 March 1935, Page 6

LEAVING FOR ENGLAND.

The electors of the Patea electorate have reason for gratification in the selection of their representative in Parliament, Mr. IT. G. Dickie, as a delegate to the .Empire Parliamentary Association s conference in London. 'lt is acknowledged on every hand that Mr. Dickie knows no party when it comes to assisting his electorate or to helping the individual elector who seek's the advice and aid of his member of Parliament. Always a stout champion of the “under dog,” Mr. Dickie has been a tireless worker on behalf of the elector who has become lost in a i maze of red-tape in his dealings I with one or other of the Government departments administering affairs pertaining to pensions, land, taxation or other subjects, and in consequence his well-wish-ers on this trip to England are not confined to supporters of his party. From the broader point of view of national benefit, it can be said that the choice of Mr. Dickie to lead the New Zealand delegation to the Parliamentary Association’s Conference was well made, for he will ably till the role, of an unofficial adviser to the Prime Minister in such subjects arising out of the quota discussions which are directly related to the practical side of farming, and of meat export, at this end. Widely travelled, and having had the advantage of residence in London, Mr. Dickie will worthily represent New Zealand at the meeting of Parliamentarians from all parts of the Empire, for, in addition to his first-hand knowledge of conditions in many countries of the world, he is also typical of the best class of New Zealand-born colonial who has continued to serve his country long' after winning a competency in it by his own efforts.