Your telegrams No. 48 [1] and 49 [2] received. The Commonwealth
Government would be glad to receive Mr. Berendsen as High
Commissioner for New Zealand in Australia [3] and arrangements
would be made for Government Departments to co-operate with him in
every possible way.

Having regard to our previous oral discussions we have not
recently considered the question of appointing a High Commissioner
in New Zealand. We will now do so. For the immediate present we
would be content with our present representative in New Zealand.

[4] This decision need not however delay your plans in regard to
Mr. Berendsen. We would give him a warm welcome and would bear in
mind the question of making a reciprocal appointment as early as
practicable.