HIGH COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 50, 22 November 1919, Page 6

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE

Tho Prime Minister has been somewhat seriously misrepresented in an interview published in a Taranaki paper in which Mr. Massey lias been mado to say something about the management of the High Commissioner's office. Mr. Massey is reported as having 6aid that tho office was "deficient," and "not properly managed." What Mr. Massey did say was that in .his opinion the tima had probably coine for making some changes in tlio organisation of tho office and the senior members of tho staff. Ho expressed the opinion that it might ba fonnd to be more satisfactory in tna future if tho staff wcra changed at regular intervals by new drafts cf officers from New Zealand. He did not say that the work of the men who liavo been for many years filling the responsible positions on the staff of the High Commissioner had been unsatisfactory in anyway, but merely that the eountryjmight bo'better served if the senior positions were filled bv men in 'recent touch with, affairs in New Zealand. Mr. Massey is mado to say also that "two or three good journalists" would bo sent Home to carry on publicity work in the interests of New Zealand. All that Mr. Massey said in this connection was that publicity work might with advantage be undertaken in the future-