TRADE WITH CANADA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 November 1939, Page 6

TRADE WITH CANADA

APPOINTMENT OF HIGH COMMISSIONERS. DECISION TO EXTEND SCHEME. OTTAWA. Ono of the first actions by the Canadian Government after the official declaration of “a state of war against the German Reich" was to announce its intention to appoint high commissioners to the other Dominions of the British Empire in the near future. The Union of South Africa recently appointed Mr Waal Meyer as accredited representative to Canada, and Ireland likewise appointed a high commissioner to Ottawa in the person of Mr John J. Hearne.

The Premier. Mr W. L. Mackenzie King, announced that, “in addition to planning to reciprocate the South African and Irish appointments, wo have intimated to Australia and New Zealand that wo should welcome an exchange of high commissioners with those two countries, and they have intimated that they would very cordially receive high commissioners from Canada." In making this announcement, Mr Kirig told Parliament that: “We have felt that at the outbreak of war there is more necessity than ever for rapid and confidential communication with the other Dominions, and that effective co-operation between the Dominions themselves would be very much furthered if we had high commissioner.'; in all of the Dominions as well as in London. Having a high commissioner in London in a position to consult with the British Government and the British Government with him has proven to be of very great, assistance to ourselves and I believe also to the British Government: and the British and inter-Dominion representation that we have had in Canada thus far lias been of very real and substantial benefit to our governments, and I believe also to the governments which have their representatives here." The premier further slated that “this is an

effort at a more effective co-operation between the different parts of the British Empire all of which are more or less involved in this war.”