COLONIAL AFFAIRS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16580, 22 February 1928, Page 7

COLONIAL AFFAIRS

N.Z. LIAISON OFFICER EX-GERMAN COLONIES (N.Z., and A.P.A., and Sun.) LONDON, Feb. 20. In the House of Commons, replying to a question, the Hon. L. S. Amcry said that from April 1 next Mr. Nic tolls ’ salary as Foreign Office liaison officer in New Zealand would be included in the Dominions’ Office vote. No doubt he would correspond informally with the Foreign Office. Mr. Nicholls was lent to Mr. Coates, not to be a representative of any department.

Mr. Amery fold a questioner that the inclusion of Irish Free State exservicemen within the scope of the Overseas Settlement Act is "still being discussed with the Dominions. He had not succeeded hitherto in reaching a satisfactory decision.

On the East African vote Mr. G. M. Gillett (Labor) moved a motion that the East African territories should be united in some scheme of federation. Commander S. M. Kenworthy, in supporting this, asked if the broadest hint was not /given by Sir Austen Chamberlain regarding Tanganyika before the Locarno Pact was ratified that Germany’s mandate for certain colonics would be, favorably considered. These colonics were taken from Germany', not as spoils of war, because wo had been told ad nauseam that we were not fighting for territory, but because Germany allegedly was not fitted to have-the colonics.

Mr. W. G. Ormsby-Gore said ho hoped the Labor Party would not encourage the idea that tiicy wanted when they came into power to' hand these territories to Germany'. It would not be easy to do so, because it did not rest with the British Government who should exercise the mandate.

The amendment uas rejected by 250 votes to S-L