To London
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One Last, Long Lingering Look, and Then:-
Minister Webb Goes Off To London
p t 11 ls evi .^ ent the August aerial excursion of NZ External Territories Minister, T. Clifton Webb, to the Coot Islands, was a farewell gesture rather than a familarisation jaunt
SCARCELY was he back in New than Prime Minister k land i announced th at Webb el ? vated to the post of High Commissioner in London in succession to the late Sir Frederick hkp dg Wphh° dl6d IFast 1 F ast May > and who, like /Webb was; formerly External Master. External Territories wm r^o2 lably £? w an °ther Minister will nmke another expensive voyage of discovery to the Forgotten Isles- and if it happens that Labour ’is returned in General Elections in New Zealand (to be held in No all S? .recommendations SSSS2S ln Minister Webb’s just published report will possibly be reversed. J ba unkin d to dwell on if, but in Rarotonga the “beach Euro- Sfwf wi iL be speculating as to Vi expensive farewell o hobday .to the romantic South Sea Islands is to be charged J° , n eC° ok Islands financial vote for 1954.