SIR HARRY BATTERBEE
FIRST BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER ARRIVAL IN AUCKLAND. FORMER VISITS RECALLED. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Tall, well-built and of easy manner, Sir Harry Batterbee, the first High Commissioner representing the United Kingdom in New Zealand, made a pleasant impression on those who met him on his arrival by the Rangitata, accompanied by his wife and a niece. He recalled that he was here with the special service squadron, being on the Hood, and as a member of the staff of the Duke and Duchess of York and hoped to be able to renew friendships made on those visits. “The relations between New Zealand and the Mother Country are so good that my job ought be an easy one,” he said to an interviewer. “The job of a High Commissioner is to interpret the views of one Government to the other. I want to meet all classes of workers and to get to know people.” ______.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1939, Page 6
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