A NEW MINISTER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 January 1909, Page 7

A NEW MINISTER.

ME. H. J. TENNANT SUCCEEDS MR: KEARLEY. (■:» iswaaArn—riiESs isaocunoN—coprßiam.) London , , Jatmary 11. Mr. W. I). Eearley, Liberal JI.P. for Dovonport, has been appointed'chairman of tho (list Port Authority, constituted under tho Port of j London' Actj but doolines a salary, Mr. Harold Tonnant,. Liboral M.Pi for Berwickshire, succeeds Mr. Koarley as Parliamentary Secretary to ,tho Board of Trade.

: ■ ; : A STRONG LABOUR ,: ' ■ The new Minister,"Mr. Harold John" Tennant, .is: brother-in-law to the Prime Minister,- Mr. Asquith, bein& a younger son of Sir Ohas. Tonnant. Part' of Sir.- Tennant'e iearly •political experienoo .was gained as privateiVeeeretar> ; to Mr. Aequith. Thonow: Minister, has'made a hobby'of Labour questions' on the practical side. ■ Hβ: wns 'Seoretary to' the-Departmental Committee of the Home Offlbe on Various Lead Industries in 1893, and aotad as ohnirm'an of the Depnrtmontal Committee'.' on ! Miscellaneous Dangerous..Trades ; in: 1895-99; His■ proclivities iff. Hue; direction have been greatly- enoouraged. by his wife, who, as Miss Abraham, was for. tnerljv Superintending : Inspeotoj. of' Faotories. Mr, Tennant was.born-in 1805. .■Eβ was educatedatEton and Trinity,, and. has a healthy all-round ,, taste-frUspbrts, whilo ha has' seven clubs in L&ndon.two in Edinburgh, and. one in Glasgow. ,>A», PMliament&ry .Swiretary. to theBoard ef Trad*; Mr. Tenn&nt^ill , probably flnd «..oenfinui j sphere for Mo, ispteial interests. ■ .-■

• "On* of the most fitting of Sir ifeenif Camp. beU>BftnnermanY nominations; to: offiee, J ':'eays the "Poll Mall G&tstte," f'wae that of Mr. Hudson Bwbank Kearloy, as Parliamentary Secretary .to" the Board '■■til Trade. Borii in TTxbridge to 1856, and cduoated at tho Surrey County SohooUt Oranleigh,' he has .passed his hie in,a strenuous:commercial career, until, as the head of Koarley and Tonge, :be 'commands one of,the most: successful provision businesses in the oountry. v,Ho was once a Conservative, but he entered (Parliament for DevOnport nsa Liberal in 1802.V and hfts. remained a -, member of the Imperialist section of that party , ,.and ho,, has succeeded in doing 6o without : truokliii& to' any of the unworthy temptationa"to political chicanery, that beset the way: of- a- dockyard member. ■Hβ has.applied his business know- : ledge to the Legislative prevention-;, of food adulteration, tindTlis constituents supplied him' with hints that,led to.his successful attab'ks on tho Bflyol jPaJtfiotio,' tfund, and the •■dltitnpto rooonstruotionof that somewhat fossilised institution." ■ . : •": ■■;'■ : : --■ ,-.-..'..- ■ .' ; •. '.