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The valediction of the Permanent Mandates Commission to Sir James Parr also was interesting:

"The Chairman said that the Commission had been working for several years in collaboration with Sir James Parr and much appreciated the assistance he had given it. He was now returning to New Zealand and it was to be hoped that he would carry with him the impression that the chief thought of the whole Commission was for the welfare of the population of the mandated territories and that it fully appreciated the difficulties of the mandatory Power. Sir James Parr had reminded the Commission how difficult it was for the mandatory Power to administer a country two thousand miles away. How much more difficult was it for the members of the Mandates Commission to understand the true situation! He hoped that Sir James Parr would retain as pleasant a memory of his collaboration with the Mandates Commission as the Commission would retain of him."