CANADA’S STATUS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 292, 7 November 1928, Page 11

CANADA’S STATUS.

BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER

IMPORTANCE OF APPOINTMENT.

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) Press Association —United Service). OTTAWA, Nov. 4. Sir William Clark, the British High Commissioner, was officially welcomed to Canada on Saturday night at a dinner tendered by the Government. Speaking of the importance of the appointment, tho Prime Minister, Mr McKenzie King, stated that it was by far the most important step yet taken to further effective consultation and co-operation between the Governments of Great Britain and Canada, with resultant benefits to both, aud, what was even more important, to further the unity of the Empire as a whole. “It is the most effective means thus far devised of securing the Crown against involvement in any possible controversy which may ever arise between the different Governments of which His Majesty is the head,” the Prime Minister declared. “If closer relations between the Governments of the Empire and the maintenance of its unity through the security of the Crown is what we all desire, may we not truly say that here is found the surest, as well as the latest, development?”