NEW DEPARTURE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 20 January 1926, Page 5

NEW DEPARTURE

PRIME MINISTER'S DEPARTMENT

MR COATES COMMENDED

'By Slootric Telegraph.—Copyright.! (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, dan. 1!)

The Times commends Mr Coates's appointment of Mr Thomson as permaneiil bead of the new Prime Minister's Department, and says that without, continuous consultation between Britain and the Dominions the doctrine of the equality status becomes unreal and almost, meaningless. Despatches sent to ■the Dominions from Downing Street in these days do not err in the direction of understatement. Information supplied is so full ami formidable that when affairs nearer home are pressing it is fatally easy for what may be apparently a routine document from London to be pigeon-holed and then overlooked. A Times editorial reviews Australia's and Canada's experiments in a similar direction and adds that there is no reason why all the Dominions should adopt precisely the same methods for keeping in touch with the Mother Country, indeed, ii is probably by variety of Iher experinicn's that the best system is most likelv to he readied.