NEW APPOINTMENTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 148, 24 June 1915, Page 6

NEW APPOINTMENTS

TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Two new appointments have been made to the Legislative Council, which were announced last night by the Prime Minister. _ Tho two gentlemen appoint, ed are Sir Walter Buchanan and tho Hon. J. A. Millar. Both have given long political service to the country. Sir Walter Buchanan entered Pai'lia* ment in 1881, and sat continuously, first for Wairarapa South, and then for Wairarapa, until _1899. In 1902 he was again elected," but Was defeated thrco years later. In 1908 he once more was returned, and sat • until the last elections, when Mr. Hornsby defeated him. Sir Walter Buchanan has also given. . valuable service to the country outside of politics. His chief sphere has been tho Wairarapa, _ whore in the early 'sixties ho acquired property which he. has held and developed ever since. He has done much for agriculture j he was one of the founders of the Wellington Meat Export Company, and is at present on the directorate. He also has given liberally towards promoting tire interests of the Wairarapa. Sir Walter Buchanan's name will also ITvo in its connection with the frozen meat industry. He was perhaps the first agriculturist to perceive the great possibili* ties of refrigeration as offered to tho export of frozen produce. The second appointee, the lion. J. A. Millar, sat in the House of Representatives as Labour member for Chal> mci's and Dunedin _ constituencies from 1893 until last election, when, owing to failing health, ho decided not to againcontest' an election. Mr. Millar has given whole-hearted and valuable ser» vice to the country, and has been prominently identified with much -of tho Labour legislation during his political term. > Ho was givei^ Cabinet rank m 1906 in tho Ward Ministry, as Minister for Labour, Customs, and Marine, and in 1908 he reconstructed the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, the feature of which was conciliation: while in the previous year he piloted a revised Customs tarii'f ' through tho House. In 1909 Mr. Millar relinquished the portfolio of Labour and became Minister for Railways. Recently the exMinister went to Auckland to reside.