THE NEW POSITIONS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18407, 13 June 1925, Page 15

THE NEW POSITIONS.

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LONDON, June 11.

The net effect of the change is that a. new Pariiamcntqry Uqder-Soeretary-and a permanent Under-Secretary-ship will tie created and, as Mr Amery's salary is unclianged, the new Department will not cost more than ad extra £SOOO. He new Dominions Under-Secretary will Bit in theHoyseof Lords. Apart from Ibfd Clarendon, the names of the Jlarqilis of Linlithgow isd Lord Onslow are mentioned. Tbd latter has been recently answering Colonial Office questions in tiie House of Lords. '

Sir James Masterman-Smith, the pfepont Per&ajjeiJt Secretair, has boon ill and will shortly resign, pnd tmro new permanent (secretaries will then be apchange. .

Sir Joseph Cook states that any proposal Tvhicli recognises that the Dominions are glrown up nations is p, stop in tho right direction. Sir Janie3 Allen also approves of the pointed. . .

STATEMENT BY MR COATES.

"Via wujM.") WELLINGTON, June 12.

Speaking of the changes in tho Colonial QsCoj the Prime Minister sajd this evening that tho New-Zealand Government hiid received the statement with much satisfaction.

"The proposals represent an earnest doslre on the part of the British Government to recogniso the status and sentiment of the oversea Dominions,"• said Mr Cofttes. "The name of the Colonial Offiee has iong since grown out of date as being appropriate for Britain solf-governing Dominions, and on thi3 account the now designation of the Secretary of State for Dominions' Affairs is to be warmly conimeiided. "Tho proposed organisation will tend greatly to facilitate the increasing volumo of copiinuuication on fpreign policy and overseas settlement, and I hope will enable British Ministers to have a greater opportunity of personal intercourse and travel among, the variportions of the King's Dominions, I feel sure ttyat public opinion in New Zealand will heartily approve the proposalS as evidence of a' desire both to tec6gniae the Dominiop's position and to co-operate moro effectively in ihat: ters of mutual or common interest."

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