25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 10

25 YEARS AGO

New High Commissioner (From “I’ho Dominion,” Auurust 1, 1913.) The appointment of a High Commissioner to succeed Sir William. Hall-Jones was announced by the Primo Minister in the House of Representatives at 4.5(1 p.m. yesterday. “The Government has offered the post of High Commissioner to the Hon. Thos. Mackenzie,” said Mr. Massey, “iind that gentleman Ims intimated to us his intention of accepting it.” * * * Tlie report of Lord Mersey, president of the court of inquiry set up by the Board of Trade to inquire into the loss of the Titanic, has been published. The principal finding of the court was that the disaster was due to the excessive speed of the Titanic, which was travelling at 21 knots filter having been warned during tlie day and the evening of the neighbourhood of ice. ♦ * ♦ Discussing the possibilities of a new railway station at Lambton, the Minister of Railways, the Hon. W. 11. Herries, stated yesterday in reply to a question : “So far as the immediate requirements of tlie traffic are concerned, they can be met in a reasonable manner by the existing facilities' at Lambton. The desirability of improving the accommodation is. however, recognised, and as opportunity occurs, improvements are being made that can be utilised in connection with the general station arrangements that will be required when the now' structure is put in hand. ... It is not proposed to make any special provision for the new Lambton station this year.”