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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 4 (July 2, 1934.)

His Career in London

His Career in London.

Although Reeves delighted in the fray of party politics and in the opportunity which gave full play to his Socialistic ideals, it must have been in the nature of a relief to him to turn his steps into a new and wonderful path, the way to London. He left the Cabinet to become Agent-General (later High Commissioner) for the colony in England. That position, in which he did much to advance the credit and renown of his country in London, he held for twelve years. When he left it, it was not to return to New Zealand but to become Director of the London School of Economics. He remained Director until 1919, and he was also for many years a member of the Senate of the University of London. Meanwhile his interests had carried him into the world of finance, and he became Chairman of Directors of the National Bank of New Zealand, a position he retained up to a little while before his death. When he revisited New Zealand in 1925 it was chiefly for the purpose of surveying the affairs of the Dominion in the interests of the Bank and of making a careful economic study of the development and prospects of the country which he had not seen for very nearly thirty years.