AUSTRALIA HOUSE.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18158, 24 October 1930, Page 7

AUSTRALIA HOUSE.

REORGANISATION PROPOSALS. RETRENCHMENT OP OFFICIAL. IS IT ECONOMY ? n-U'ort Press Assn.— Elec. Tel. CoDyrlgrUt. (Received Oct. 24, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 23. Sir G. de L. Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia, has not yet received Mr Coleman’s report regarding Australia House re-organisation, but it is understood he will be given an opportunity of commenting before it is put into effect. lie unofficially stated that at least six well-paid officials will be sent back to Australia as a result of the economy campaign, but does not expect that their fate will be sealed before the Imperial Conference. One likely to be affected said it would cost Australia £IOOO to send back each man, with his wife and family, and the. furniture added. It does not seem sound economics to add a bill like that to the present financial year. Billets must be found in Australia for the civil servants affected. Why not wait until some profitable use for them is found in Australia?

“I have not heard it officially, but it is doubtless corect,” said Mr D’Arcy W. Addison, Under Secretary for Tasmania, when news was telephoned him of the decision to abolish the Agency-General. Mr Addison conveyed the impression that the Government’s move was no surprise, and was probably the prelude to the incorporation of all the Agencies-General with the high Commissioner’s Office.