QUICK TRIP TO LONDON

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 255, 28 October 1939, Page 8

QUICK TRIP TO LONDON

DOMINION MINISTER 13 DAYS BY PLANE WELLINGTON, Oct. 27. The Hon. P. Fraser, who is representing New Zealand at the conference of Dominions’ Ministers with the Home Government, has made a quick trip, utilising the Empire air service throughout. He left Auckland nn October 13 on the Tasman flying-boat Aotearoa. Two days later he and his party continued their journey by other air liners. The duration of Mr. Eraser's stay in Britain is indefinite. “I told him be fore he left,” stated the Prime Minister (Mr. Savage) to a Hawera Stai correspondent, “that he should stay while there is a job to be done, if it took six weeks or six months.” "These personal conference of representatives of Governments,” continued Mr. Savage, "give a better opportunity to deal with the biggest job they will ever be called upon to face. I think most people will agree right away that it does not matter how well one tries to do a job by discussing details through cables, telegrams and letters, that it is not so well done as through personal touch. It is such a big job that misunderstanding could crop up with the best intentions in the world. "So far as New Zealand is con cerned, we made it plain, and 1 say again, that we are going the full distance with the British Commonwealth, and we want to be sure that this L expressed in our actions right through.” The Prime Minister stated that the portfolios administered by Mr. Fraser have been temporarily allocated as follows:—Education, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason: Health and Mental Hospitals, the Hon. H. G. Armstrong; Marine and Inspection of Machinery, the Hon. W. Parry; Police, the Hon. P. C. Webb.