NEW GERMAN CONSUL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23130, 31 August 1938, Page 14

NEW GERMAN CONSUL

HERR RAMM ARRIVES TRADE ARRANGEMENTS [by TELEGRAPH—PItRSS association] WELLINGTON, Tuesday Arriving by the Wanganella to-day, Herr Ernst C. Ramm will take up his duties as Consul-General of Germany. Ho made tho journey alone, but will bo joined soon, ho hopes, by his wife and child. Ho said in an interview that he had spent 15 years in the diplomatic service, comprising several years in Japan, Russia and Spain. When asked his opinion as to the situation in tlicso countries, ho said that, although it was only a few years sinco ho had been there, subsequent events had probably made his opinions out of date. Ho was in Tokio in 192628, in Moscow in 1929, and in Madrid in 1929-32. For the last six years he had worked in tho Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Berlin. Ho was especially glad to be in Berlin in 1936 to see the Olympic. Games, and one of his best memories was seeing the New Zealand long-distance champion, J. E. Lovelock, whoso performance and excellent stylo were much admired by tho German public. Herr Ramm left Germany on July 12 and went to London, where he was well received by tho High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr. W. J. Jordan. Asked concerning trado relations, ho said he was charged to cultivate the good relations already existing between New Zealand and Germany. Tho present agreements were working out most satisfactorily, but further than that ho could make no statement.