MR. JORDAN IN LONDON

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 6

MR. JORDAN IN LONDON

Our Own Correspondent.)

Confident That Time Will Run To Second Term INTERVIEWER'S STATEMENT

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LONDON, Nov. 3. "Mr Jordan's term of office here is for three years, but he bas every confidence tbat bis time will run to a second term," states an interviewer writing in tbe Metbodist Tinles and Leader, wbicb devotes an illustrated page to an interview witb tbe Higb Commissioner for New Zealand in Loudon. Tbe writer p/oceeds:; — "Watcbing.'tbe strong, upriglit figure, witb - ite rugged conntenanco as be leaned against the mantelpieee or strodo around tbe piled up desk, I told inyself, not for the iirst finm that -tlie more important a man is., tbe easier it is to interview bim. Tbe story tbough told in the simplest possible fasbion, witb all tbe friendly, not to sav, jolly, intimacy of colonial speecb, was . as creditable to our Empire as it was to tbe. Methodist Churcb. " 'We are enjoying mucb prosperity just now in New Zealand," remarked Mr Jordan. " Unemployment bas been greatly redueed, and in some trades all available men are fully employed. Tbe political situation in New Zealand is stable; we have no really extreme parties on either side. ' This reei-tal appealed as almost amounting to an invitation to emigrate, and prompted tbe question what tbe cliancCs were in tbat direction. • Mr Jordan replied: 'At present tbere is no • assisted emigration to New Zealand, but our unemployed . are being absorbed; having fallen from 75,000 men to 30,000 in 18 montbs, and wben tbe figures are sufficiently redueed we hope' agam to invite British working men and women to settle in our Dominion. Tbere is at present no hindrance to Britisb people settling in New Zealand, but no assistance is given. ' "