BRITBSH MINISTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 12, 14 January 1919, Page 5

BRITBSH MINISTRY.

RE-SHUFFLING PORTFOLIOS. SOME UNCHANGED. NEW TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT I.O.VDON. January 13. The following additional appointments tv the British Ministry are announced: Karl Curzon. Lord Fruaident of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords. -Mr Winston Churchill. Secretary of State for Wnr and Air Minister. Sir Albert Stanley, President of the' ■ Board ..t Trade. ' 1 i Mr. H. K. I'rolhpro. President of the Board of Agriculture. j Dr. H. A. 1., Fisher, President of the Board of Kduralion. Mr. A. Weir. Minister for Munitions (to becoiiic Minister lor Supply). Mr. G. 11. Robert.?, Miniver" for Food. Sir Joseph I. _Mae!;iy, Shipping Controller. Lieut-Colonel Sir Robert S. Home. Minister for Labour Sir learning V, orthington-Krane, Minister for Pensions. Sir Alfred Mond, Kirst Commissioner of Works. Sir Krneat T'olloc.k. Solicitor-General. Mr. A. lllingworlb. Post master-General. Sir Uamar tjreenwood. Parliamentary rnde.r-Secret:iry for Home Affairs. Viscount French, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Mr. n. K. Prothero and Mr. A. Weir have been raised to the peerape. The Government proposes to establish a Ministry of Ways and Ci mmunica lions. If the proposal is adapted, the Department will be controlled by Sir Eric Geddes».—(A. and N.Z. Cable") The "Times," in a leading article. Rfatey that the new MinLstrv is merely a reshuffle. There are many palpable mis- : fits and a pervading air of stalenoss. H is probably intended as a stop {jap during the Peace Conference, pending the launching of the reeonstrncion policy, but Mr Lloyd George has gravely shaken ernfidCTiep in his power of choosing and placing men. The "Daily Mail" says tho oli! inilii-c-nrm is too strong for Mr. I.lov \ Cor.r^e.

land many of thp appointments an , purely ' 1 political.— ("Times."l ' ' FEW STTRFR.ISES. [ THE EOUTDTE NAMES. iTvfCci-ved 12J50 p.m.) ,»* ' LONDOX, January \X The nowspapers comment that thcro s are few surprises in the CabiiiPt sx»leei tion. Some ropret that Mr. Lloyd Georjjp has not shown more courage in poinc onteide the rontine names when fillin" somp of the more prominent oHioee, par ticnlarly th* Admiralty. There are severa.l hostile conunente on Mr. Churchill* '• translation to the War Office, and donbts axe pxpressrd of Sir F. K. : Smith's Fnitability for the Ixird Chan-1 ccllorship.—<A. and Cable.) There are only four nw meml>ers of the Ministry in the above list, and while d there has been a shuffling of the port- '• folios to somo extent, several of the o I Ministers retain their former depart-1 '■ j nw>ntß. iwhiding Karl Curaon, Sir Albert •-; Stanley. Mr H. K. Prothero, Dr. H. A. •<" JL. Fisher, Sir Joseph Miirlay, Alfred CjMond. Mr A. and \isrr>unt >- ' Fr<-noh. Mr (liurchill pucrerda Lord '*■ i Milnor in the War Secretaryship, and 1-I Lord Weir transfers from the" Air Conn-

eil to Munitiona. Mr (J. H. Roberts' transfers from the Ijibour I>epartment to I I thp Department of Food. vai - aJ«i by Mr IJ. R. Oynes. Sir Roht. Tlornr. Minister of I-abour. is one of the newcomers. Sir l>. Worthington Kvans was apf»oinU'<i Minister of Blockade in the middle of last year, aftfT having server! in the Munitions Department. He is a gTeat I authority on company law, aud hat» shown the frreatest anxiety to assist diseharfred poldifTS. so that he should fill the post of Pensions Minister very ably. Sir Krnest Pollock, the new S\»licitorGeneral. who replocv« Sir flordon Hewart. I was chairman of the Contraband Com-] mittee durinjr the war. Sir ILamar (Ireenwood, Home T T nder Secretary, is a Canadian, who was in Australia for several years. He saw three years' Ber- j vice in the present war. B