LATE SIR JOHN SALMOND.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18219, 1 November 1924, Page 13

LATE SIR JOHN SALMOND.

SERVICES TO THE EMPIRE. A "TIMES" APPRECIATION. : {thou oca ovrcr cobmswwijm?.) LONDON, September 24. • Apprediative referenoe isi n*ade in "The Times" to the late Sir John Salmond. "By his death," Bays the writer, "New- Zealand and the Jltopire lose- a distinguished jurist who devoted all ms services towards the maintenance improvement of Imperialfr Imperialism was essentially that of tho Masaev school —while exceedingly J®~' bus of the national status of his Dominion, he considered that in peace as well as in war the Empire should speak to the outside world through the common mouthpiece of the British Governm "Late in 1921 he was appointed to represent New Zealand the Ihsatmor mcnt Conference, and he landed at Vancouver only four days before the srst meeting. The night before the steamer Niagara reached port he was walking the deck— a grarre, academic icure, suggestive of the university professor he had onice been, rather thanol tlie Judge that he was.. 'And what asked bis companion—'and what is Not Zealand's attitude going to he towardi disarmament in the Pacific?' "Salmond halted in his stride, ant swung round on his heel. 'New Zea land's attitude,' he said, "Is going to b( the Empires' attitude, and I cant "te* what we are going to do until Balfou! tells me what England wants us to do. But he was far from being a jingoist and not one of the Dominion delegate at Washington was keener in pressini the claims of the country he represent ed. His point was that the Imperia point of view should be adjusted in < 'family conference' beforehand, _ an< that there should be no clash of int^ r est and demands between the Mother Country and the Dominions m the eye of the outside world. With oertau limitations, Salmond's theory wnetJi' theory generally accepted in New land, and the confidence that was_ro- - in hin. ty Mr M«*l ever, Salmond's rests upon his servicesi w InJthan his semoes m tee jnnapniperial politics. fcown dence 8 U over tlw Enip ire as standard wor*s « editions.'' and tove .*MK^^ n Dy t<, apeak of Sir The writer floejV®, then.roJohn the Wash, calls Chat the ing*» battleships should. he of nnblio and ceremonial

INTOW Zealand," says "Tho I Tiroes" "*** ,yiDg , ab Rosyth ab -i 'nnws, a ] t i, on gh there was considerfor th e «w.Mon that ; should make a last voyage to tbe Dwnj'nion that gave her to the Empire . an d he sunk in her home waters, such a plan was found impracticable. But it was only last year while the. Special | Service Squadron was in Sydney Harbour that the Bister Dominion of Australia adopted Sir . T Salmond's idea, and the great Tiattc-cruiser of Commonwealth went down wTSi wreaths on her quarterdeck and the thunder of a salute ahriro Kmc,"