SIR GEORGE REID

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2652, 24 December 1915, Page 6

SIR GEORGE REID

••• AN ACTIVE IMPERIALIST < ' My Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright • ■ London, December 22._ 1 It is unlikely that Sir George Raid ' ti: Australia. Ho does 'not intend' to resume- his prac- : tico at the .Bar.,' Sir George Reid-is : 'reticent:regarding the future. Import- - ant circles; predict that-when-.he-relin- . . quishe3. tho Higli. fommissionership he -*' will.emerge from a,neutral position.,and become an. active Imperialist. Sir Georgo " • foreshadowed this at- a dinner, and also recently commented on tlio_ double in- ■' come' 'tax.'' •■'- Therefore, it .is .expected ' ■ that he will figure prominently in-tho. ' serious post-war problems, and the con-. .siderations for the impending reorgan- . '. . isation of the Empire in the .light of , tho lessons of the- war. .The task is , one Tequirihg , the:-hest . brains ■■ of tho Dominions, co-operating jwith the most prominent English statesmen. It cannot be stated definitely, what Sir George ' ■ Reid's functions will be, but it is cer- ' tain-that ho will .take a position in tho. '<?•;. forefront of British public life,. and pro- - Obably later enter active politics in England, where his ' intimate association - . with', higher circles makes his services of peculiar, value..