THE HIGH COMMISSIONERSHIP.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15923, 8 May 1912, Page 4

THE HIGH COMMISSIONERSHIP.

[Fnon Our Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, May 7. During this month Lady Findlay and her throe boys will sail for England. One boy has already commenced his law studies and the others are at school. Their education will be completed at Home. Whether Sir John Findlay will subsequently follow his family to London in tho capacity of High Commissioner is a matter which the Mackenzie Cabinet will decide before tho end of the month. It is understood that Sir John Findlay would accept the post if it were offered, desuite tho lucrative nature of his New Zealand work, but there are no indications at present to show that ho is to bo chosen. In fact, there are many well-informed people hero who beliovo that the Prime Minister, who was spoken of as tho new High ' Commissioner immediately upon Sir William Hnll-Jones’s resignation last Julv, may prefer that office to tho exceedingly difficult and arduous duties he now undertakes. Tho Hon T. Mackenzie makes no secret of the fact that pressure of work upon tho Prime Minister is so groat that no man of ordinary phvsiqu© can stand it for long. He will probably scok relief through tho appointment of extra Ministers, but failing this the High Commissionership may commend itself and he has the advantage oi knowing London in a business sense, as few colonials do.