BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE
SIR PATRICK DUFF APPOINTED (P.A) WELLINGTON, Jan. 5. Sir Patrick Duff has been selected to fill the post of High Commissioner in New Zealand for His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, in succession to Sir Harry Batterbee, whose extended term of office will expire this year. Sir Patrick wili take up his duties in the middle of the year. Sir Patrick Duff, K.C.8.. K.C.V.0., has been Deputy High Commissioner in Canada since 1941. After service in the Great War, in which he was twice mentioned in despatches, he was private secretary to successive presidents of the Board of Trade from 1919 to 1923, and in the following 10 years was private secretary to two Prime Ministers—Mr Stanley Baldwin and Mr Ramsay Macdonald. From 1933 to 1941 he was secretary to the Ministry of Works and Public Buildings. Sir Patrick is 55 years of age. Sir Harry Batterbee has been High Commissioner in New Zealand since 1939.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25736, 6 January 1945, Page 4
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