WHERE SHOE PINCHES
.SIR H. BATTERBEE ON HIS DUTIES. PROMOTING UNDERSTANDING * AGREEMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. “My function Js to explain to the people in Britain where the shoe pinches in'New Zealand and to the people in New Zealand where the shoe pinches in England."—This explanation of his duties was given by Sir Harry Batterbee, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand, who arrived from Wellington this morning. _ British policy, he said, was to settle difference by friendly, round the table conferences, and he was in New Zealand for that purpose, just as Mr W. J. Jordan was in London. By familiarising himself with conditions in New Zealand, which necessitated visits to all parts of the Dominion, he could supplement official despatches, giving them a personal note. As he had been previously a civil servant and was without any political leanings, his task was made somewhat lighter. He added that another of his duties was to strengthen the ties binding New Zealand to the Old Country.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1939, Page 6
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170WHERE SHOE PINCHES Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1939, Page 6
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