HIGH COMMISSIONERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19384, 20 July 1926, Page 11

HIGH COMMISSIONERS.

THE QUESTION OF STATUS. [from our own correspondent. ] LONDON, June s", Lieut.-Coloiiel R. V. K. Applin, D.5.0.. M.P., writes from the House of Corn raons: "The new High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir James Parr, has raised the question of the status of High Commissioners, and whether this officer should not be replaced by a member of the Dominion Government as a resident Minister, with full power to deal with all questions between the Dominion and the Mother Country. " There is no doubt that a strong feeling exists, not only in New Zealand, but in all the great self-governing Commonwealths and Dominions, that the time has now come when they ought to have a plenipotentiary representative in Britain, and a greater voice in all those questions affecting their own country in relation to the outside world and the Empire as a whole. " I am strongly of opinion that the form such representation should take must be left to the Dominion concerned, and that it would be a mistake for us to do more than express our readiness to give the fullest and most sympathetic consideration to every suggestion made for ojmplefe representation and a ica '' Imperial affairs and fomgn relate where they affect the Empire.