DOMINIONS’ VOICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1922, Page 5

DOMINIONS’ VOICE.

ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN. COMPLAINT OF TREATMENT. RELATIONS OF OFFICIALS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn, —Copyright. Received March 31, 5.5 p.m, London, March 30. It is common knowledge m official circles . that the Australian, representatives in London receive treatment by certain officials of the Colonial Office which is greatly resented. “I do not know whether he is a fool or something else,” said one Agent-General, commenting on one official, “but he certainly is most unsuitable to deal witn representatives of the Dominions.” Sir James Allen, High Commissioner for New Zealand, goes beyond the criticisms of officialdom and opens the wider question of the Ministerial attitude in the following statement under his own name: “It will be most disastrous if it comes about that British Ministers should find themselves se occupied with other matters that they cannot give some attention to Dominion needs. The present position is not satisfactory. I am most willing to make every excuse for the extraordinary conditions prevailing now, but after all the Empire can only hang together by mutual goodwill, which must be shown by everybody.” Sir James Allen says he is determined to press the matter to the utmost limits if the remedy is not otherwise achieveable. No surprise will be caused if the matter is specially referred personally to Mr. Lloyd George.—