A LABOUR CABINET.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 7 November 1910, Page 3

A LABOUR CABINET.

CAREER OF NEW SOUTH WALES' MINISTERS. It the author of "Self Help" were .live to-day, he would find much to inerest him m the careers of the members /f the new Ministry in New South A 7 ales. Nearly all are self-made men. ind most of them have worked for their iving with their hands. Mr McGowen, he Prime Minister, began to help his ,'ather to build bridges when he was ten. on he-applied, himself industriously 0 shorthand after his long working day >f twelve hours, and was at one 4 time an nstructor in the subject. Mr Holman, .he Attorney-General, who is described is the most brilliant man in the party, s a carpenter by trade and a lawyer by jrofession. When an apprentice in the furniture trade he burst upon ■ a trade inion meeting with a speech which formid the subject of conversation for the rest of the evening. Now the word that 'Holman's up" soon fills the House of Assembly. Mr Edden, Minister for Sfines, began life as a pit-boy in a Staffordshire mine at the age of ten, and ias also worked in mines in New South /Vales. Two of his sons are Niewcastle niners to-day. Mr Neilson, the Minister :or Lands, is a carpenter by trade, but ias become a farmer. Mr Trefle (Hon. Minister) is a farmer and a newspaper proprietor, and has had a college eduction. He began to plough when he was .welve, and he is particularly proud of ,he fact that he was a champion ploughnan while in his teens. Mr Carmichael Hon. Minister) has been farmer, lawyer, md journalist, and Mr Beebv, Minister "or Education, teacher, journalist, accountant, and lawyer. Mr Macdonell is 1 shearer, and secretary of the powerful Australian Workers' Union, which is laid to .be the organisation behind the Federal Labour Party, and the source of Jie Government's policy. Mr Griffith. Vlinister for Works, has been a secondary school teacher. He is noted for his ithletic prowess, having represented his State at football, and won an amateur boxing championship. He also wears a r old medal for saving life. The Prime Minister has also been a successful ithkte. His cricketing days are over, but he plays bowls, and fishes when he ;an. H'e was in angling attire when the governor's envoy arrived to summon him io' Government House. It is also mentioned that he has been a Sunday-school superintendent for many years.