LORD MILKER’S SERVICES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16330, 20 January 1921, Page 8

LORD MILKER’S SERVICES.

TRIBUTE FROM MR MASSEY. [Per Pxiess Association.] WELLINGTON, January 20. In response to a request for a statement ny a ruing changes in the Colonial Office, Mr Massey said :— £ ‘ I regret exceedingly ‘that Lord. Milner is retiring •from tho position of Secretary - o-f State for the Colonics. He has been one «• The best and most painstaking o\ the many capable men wlio have occupied that" important, position. Lord Milner has a knowledge of the Dominions and the dependencies of the Empire possessed by very few, even of the class that we speak' of as Imperial statesmen. What is equally important, he lias what inav be termed the Imperial instinct, without which no British, statesman can be successful. Every matter with which bo had to deal was _ always looked at from the point of view of the Empire as a whole, and Wo bad both the experience ami judgment necessary t-o deal

with it satisfactorily. 1 feel that as overseas citizens of ih© Empire, we owe much to Lord Milner, and I shou.d oo very glad to see some arrangement made by which he would continue to act for the Dominions: because T am confident that our interests would be quite safe in Iris bands.”