MR WILFORD.
"WELCOMED AT LUNCHEON. ' (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Jan. 16. The High Commissioner’s term is far too short. I hope it will he lengthened in Mr Wilford’s case, said Earl Jellicoe, presiding at a New Zealand Associations luncheon welcoming Mr Wilford, at which Lord Bledisloe was present. Earl Jellicoe described Mr Wilford on a voyage to Japan using chopsticks like a Japanese, * and also learning Japanese, though periods not speaking it like the Japanese. Mr Wilford said New Zealand had not shut, barred and bolted the door against migration, but was marking time Vor economic reasons. Meanwhile is was buying British goods. He Imped to see a New Zealand Women’s Association in London. Perhaps r, local knowledge of, the Pacific, rounjd which dwell half the population o\ f the world, might be useful at the Naval Conference. " He had visited thirty-two , countries, meeting the 'leaders and trying !to understand their problems.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1930, Page 4
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154MR WILFORD. Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1930, Page 4
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