SIR O. NIEMEYER

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1930, Page 6

SIR O. NIEMEYER

LEAVES AUSTRALIA. (Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, November 13. A passenger by the Niagara, which left here at 5 p.m. to-day for Auckland, is Sir Otto Niemeyer. He had been staying in the country for the past few days 'in order to escape from the interviewers, who did not know until the last minute that Sir Otto Niemeyer was leaving. He maintained his reputation of reserve by remarking: “1 have nothing to say about anything!” At a Journalistic Institute Luncheon to-day, however, Sir Otto Niemeyer said that the Bank of England had intervened in the Australian financial and economic affairs because she was asked to do so*. It ought to be remembered that twice in the last five years the Bank of England—and at its own expense and for no other reason except that of public service—had sent representatives to Australia. “Any views,” he added, “which...] have expressed in this-coimtms^efei 1 not political views. Whether you agree with them or not, they were-ffamed as the result of an impartial study of Australian conditions.”