COLONIAL OFFICE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10136, 5 November 1910, Page 5

COLONIAL OFFICE.

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THE REPORTED NEW APPOINT- i fvIENT. A NEW ARRANGEMENT. SIR W. HALL-JONES INTERVIEWED. Received Last Night, 9.30 o'clock. LONDON, November 4. The Chronicle denies the reported appointment of a new Secretary for the Colonies. What is contemplated is a permanent Secretariat for the Overseas Dominion!?, who will r.e the official spokesman of the Premier. The paper adds that the change will not he introduced before the arrival in England of Mr Andrew Fisher, Prime minister of the Commonwealth. Sir William Hall-Jones, in an interview, suggested that the innovation was merely a recognition of the fact that New Zealand and the other Dominions were developing so rapidly that it was essential for the Home Government to afford more careful attention to their needs. He added that the Colonial Uffice had behaved excellently to the overseas Dominions in the past. "Lord Crewe," he said, "has never failed us." A NEWSPAPER OPINION. (Received Last Night, 11.35 o'clock.) LONDON, November 4, The Daily News says that the oversea Dominions' grievance- against the Colonial Office will not be met by giving the new Secretary of State to themselves. The hulk of the Colonial Office's work, it alleges, con- < corns Crown colonies. The Dominions' Department will lie a very attenuated affair. What the Dominions want is the right of direct access to the Premier, who would then be the Dominion's mouthpiece to the Foreign Secretary, the War Office, and the Admiralty. I