MOVEMENTS OF MINISTERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 October 1908, Page 7

MOVEMENTS OF MINISTERS.

EXODUS FROM THE CAPITAL. During the next few days there will bo a general exodus of Cabinet Ministers from Wellington. The elections are calling them away. Sir Joseph Ward leaves to-morrow night for the South. Ho will be accompanied by Lady Ward, and will probably be away for a week or ten days.. The Hon. J. M'Gowan will take the express to New Plymouth on Friday or Saturday, and go on via Auckland to the Thames,- where ,he will probably address his constituents early next week. Tho Hon. J. A. Millar leaves by tonight's boat for Lyttelton. ■ He will speak at a' social tendered to Messrs. Witty and Buddo, M.P.'s, at Christchurch, on. Thursday, and will proceed to' Du'nedin by the first express on Friday. He will probably not return to, Wellington until after the elections. • His first address to his constituents in Dunedin (where he _is being opposed by a Labour-Socialist candidate) will fe delivered some time next week. The Hon. •R. M'Nab expects to return from the Hastings Show on Saturday, and intends to leave for his constituency in the far South on Monday. Although lie is in tho. fortunate position of having no competition, so far,' for his seat, he will most likely remain away until after polling day. The Hon. W. Hall-Jones having accepted the appointment of .High will not take an active part in the olections, but ho hopes to leave for his home at Timaru early next week. ~ Tho Hon. J. Carroll is already journeying by stages to Poverty Bay, and the Hon. G. Fowlds is in the thick of the contest at Grey Lynn, so that, in tha.course• of, a: few days the Hon. Dr. Findlay^/irillVapparently be tho only Jlinister^left;.'jn ri th;e,Vcap,ftal.