WELCOME TO LONDON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22524, 15 September 1936, Page 6

WELCOME TO LONDON

ARRIVAL OF MR. JORDAN -■■■ I ■ LABOUR GOVERNMENT'S AIMS [FROM OUR OWX CORBESPOXDEXt] V LONDON, August 26 When tbe new High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr. W. J. Jordan, arrived in London last Friday he wag met by a large party of New Zealandere and British officials. Among them were Sir James Parr, the retiring High Commissioner, Mr. W. C. Hankinson-, representing the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, and Brigadier-General J. Whitehead, Deputy-Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Force, in which Mr Jordan served as a constable before he emigrated to New Zealand in 1904. :M

Mr. Jordan, said that .when he went to New Zealand emigrants were welcomed, and the country was able to absorb them in comfort. New Zealanders believed the time would come again when the country would be able to accept emigrants from Britain;, that would be after all local unemployed had bee n reabsorbed into industry. The country was certainly moving in that direction to-day. .i The new Labour Government by its legislation desired to give greater security of employment, stability to industry and a standard of living to the people which their industry and the fertility of the soil justified. .Its policy was to organise internal economy in a way that would distribute production ? and services and would guarantee to every person able and willing to work an income sufficient to provide him and his dependants with what was necessary to make a home. The dairy industry had been stabilised and many unem- ■ ployed had been put on railway development work. to the aged and disabled had been widened and made more generous. - After referring to the 40-hour week and relief work wages, Mr. Jordan said the New Zealand Government sought the co-operation of Britain in its efforts to make the Dominion a con- • tented and prosperous unit of the British Commonwealth. It desired to extend two-way trade with Britain, and to meet in full all financial charges in London and elsewhere. It also attached importance to the principle of collective security and peaceful progress through a properly organised League of Nations.