DOMINION " AMBASSADORS."

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19844, 17 July 1926, Page 12

DOMINION " AMBASSADORS."

[NECESSITY FOR PLENARY POWERS. (Feom Odb Own Cokbespondent ) LONDON, July 5. Lieut.-colonel R. V. K. Applin, D. 5.0., M.P., writes from the House of Commons. “The new High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir James Parr, has raised the question of the statute of High Commissioners, and whether this oflicer 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 foelino- 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 Hint the foim such representation should take must he 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 complete representation and a real voice in Imperial affairs and foreign relations where they allect the Empire."