DOMINION DELEGATES

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20955, 7 November 1939, Page 9

DOMINION DELEGATES

SPECIALISTS IN LONDON WILL THEY REMAIN? DECISION NOT REACHED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Monday No action has so far been taken by the New Zealand Government in connection with the proposal that the specialists attached to the British Ministerial delegations to London should remain there as members of a permanent organisation to deal with war problems. A London cable message published this morning stated that it was not proposed to create a permanent Ministerial body in London, but that the specialists, including service officers and economic supply experts who accompanied the Ministers to London, would remain as part of an enlarged stall and would act in conjunction with the High Commissioners. New Zealand’s official representative at the British Commonwealth Ministerial discussions, the Hon. F. Fraser, was accompanied to London by the permanent head of the Prime Minister’s Department, Mr C. A. Berendsen, and by the secretary of the Organisation for National Security, Colonel W. G. Stevens. “No decision has been made,” said the Minister of Finance, the Hon. W. Nash, when asked this evening if the proposal meant that either Mr Berendsen or Colonel Stevens would be remaining in London after the conference of Ministers had finished.