“BIG BILL” JORDAN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 2

“BIG BILL” JORDAN

% PUBLICITY IN LONDON

EK-POmCEaiAN’S FAME

GLOWING PICTURE OF N.Z

LONDON, Sept- 2

It §is a pity that. Mi. Bruce was never a policeman. Tor had he wielded a baton in the days ,of his youth he would have been assured of publicity on taking up the post;of High Commissioner in London. Consider the case of “Big Bill Jordan. New Zealand’s High Commis-sioner-designate, who arrived here, heralded by much newspaper trumpeting and lauded to the skies as a sort of Dick Whittington. Thiiik of the advertisement he hf gt v * ing to New Zealand! Conceive* the golden opportunities open to him for preclaiming the Dominion’s charms ahdlwealth!

Photographed at the station, surrounded - by. ■ knights, generals, and British Jjdyernment representatives; photpgr^hed-greeting SLyear-,old mother at her-home m Avondale road, Harringay; photographed here, and interviewed there; really, we felt lor a tithe thatdhe Spanish war was, after all, an affair-of-minor importance compared with this New Zealand Big BillU (.as moro than one newspaper affealionatelyi .calls huri)- ' . " Mia *all ■ ttfccausft “Big haa been a irohstaide for .one short year, k»ng> : loiig ago; all because he had “riien’J .in. the world in a manner whip- seems to>haye _sun»rised - the good peoplV-ot ~ iiiis>—hind, -So - tha probably everC3uau on' the beat in London now cherishes the thought thaC ho. too, may some day exchange Ms policeman’s baton for a High Commisaioncr’s top hat. As for big Mr. Jordan, it cannot be saiithat he is modest when describing the manifold attractions of his adopted country. His glowing words have create quite a sensation, especially among Labour leaders and union seerbtaties, -who are filled, with-an envious toy when they hear that r<ew Zealand workers arc paid £4 for a 40W week, and that rural workers arc not £“allowed” to receive: less than 42s % week, and are “ compelled to take an annual holiday on full payThnS we read -3uch -headings m the Daily Herald and The New 3 Chronicle ns ‘if A Farming Paradise, Mherc Workers are %ch,” “A H a PPy Land, ’ ’ and so. on. It is all good pi m pagoda, and Mr. Jordan _ k to -be coHja-atnlated upon it. - s - - But we know, and hfe knows, too, that:practically all this initial success derives from the fact that e performed constabulary duties m a metropolis which, is entirely unaccustomed. to seeing its exrpolieemen i high; plac^^^