DOMINIONS STATUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 18 December 1925, Page 9

DOMINIONS STATUS.

SOUTH AFRICAN PROPOSALS. ' i By Cable —Press Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON, December 10. The system of Dominion representation in London is again occupying a section ot the South African Press, whose campaign for a drastic alteration is strongly supported by Mr Duncan, General Smuts and the Minister for the Interior. It is contended that Mr Duncan should have the status and functions of Ambassador instead of being, as at present, a combination of a glorified commercial traveller and a more or less affable handshake, who is supposed to ask his own Dominion visitors how they like London. The “Rand Daily Mail,’’ sharing this opinion, urges that the problem is one for common Dominion action, and expresses the hope that the next Imperial Conference will arrive at a complete agreement in regard to the necessity for such, a change. If things are allowed to drift as they are now, the “Mail” adds. Mr Duncan in the British Commonwealth of Nations will assuredly he reduced to a nullity.