AND THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 256, 5 November 1910, Page 5

AND THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS.

"VIEWS <£F SIR W. HALL,JQNES

[PEBSS ASSOCIATION.] (Received-Nov. 4,» 9.80..j?.m.V LONDON, Nov. 4. The Daily Chronicle denies the appointment of a new Secretary of State for the Colonies. What is cqn--~template3. '-is a permanent secretariat jfor tfhe Overseas .Dominions, which ■will 'be She dmcial spokesman- _ .The Prime Minister adds that the change -will not 'be introduced before .Mr !Fisher?s'arrival "in England. Sir "William Hall-Jones, interviewed, that the 'innova-; —fcion was merely recognition of the fact ihat New Zealand and other Dominions were; developing so rapidly that-it was • essential that'the Home '•^Government should afford mom care•tfril attention to their, needs. -He, added that the Colonial Office ' had, lie-held, "behaved excellently towards -ifhe Overseas Dominions'in ( the past. *'Lord Crewe has never-failed us/ he The Daily News says that the Do-•-roinions' grievances against the rOffice will not be met by giving them a new Secretary of-'JState -^fco themselves. rThe bulk of ftieCkjlouial 'Office's work concerns the1 »<?rown Colonies. "A i Dominions De-: partmerit will"be a very attenuated, :affair. "What; the . Dominions want is -the right <sf ; direct access to the, "Prime [Minister, who would then'be: Dominions' mouthpiece to -the' 3?aFeign Secretary j i the War Office,! ;saaid-the Admiralty. • ■