In the Public Eye

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 94, 22 April 1933, Page 21

In the Public Eye

MR. WILLIAM WOODIN.

LORD AMULREE,

A atrummer upon the guitar, a collec- Lord Amulree, who is a member of a tor of old coins, an ardent admirer of Eoyal Commission which is inquiring rare and fine editions, a man with an into the future of Newfoundland, and eye for period furniture, and an ama- in particular into its financial prospects, teur composer, Mr. William Woodin, the was Secretary for Air in Mr. Eamsay new.American Secretary of the Trea- Mac Donald's second Labour Ministry, sury, whose name was much in the news Lord Amulree succeeded the late Lord during the recent financial crisis of his Thomson in that post, after the tragic country, is surely one of the most un- death of the Labour Minister in the usual of politicians. He likes nothing ill-fated airship ElOl. At that time better than to strum upon the guitar in iT= while lying in bed, and carries the an- Qf t CommonS) and h ad been a member strument with him wherever he goes, o f the- House of Lords for only about while some of his orchestral works have a year. He had, however, a great tobeen performed by the finest American putation, and, as Sir William. Mackenzie, 1 J had presided over many courts of morchestras. quiry. He was President of the InMr. Woodin is a "sound money" dustrial Court from 1919 to 1926 and man and the very practical head of the had taken silk in 1886. He was also American Car and Foundry Company, Chairman of the Licensing Commis- , ~ , -..,.* t ■ I sion. "If the countries ot the world which reached the heights of restraint are ono £amily> abovo all are vario us in advertising when it appended its nations of the British commonwealth name to a serins of reproductions of the one family working together for the works of Rockwell Kent, *tho famous good of all, and, I would add, for the artist. Mr. Woodin w.as believed'to bo g°°d °f the worla at, IafS GV Saa Bopublican, but he was one oiMhose Lord Amulree last month. "I hopo_in who were dissatisfied with the past the Commission's presence-appointed regime, and he voted for Mr. «A 1" °n the 3omt advice of His Majesty s Smith and then for President Eoosevelt, Government in the United Kingdom, and gave 25,000 dollars to the Demoera'- Canada, and Newfoundland and corntic campaign fund. The iron foundry, P°«ed of members nominated by all v- v I i i iii«,,,,,iv,,,,in n p™,,vi three countries —will be found evidence which stands at 1 oundiyville Pennsyl- comm onwealth spirit which an* yania and was. established in 1849 is and e A bond - o£ fellow . the visible symbol of three generatons of Woodms The young Woodin hen , ■ 1 « and finds was educated at the New lork Latin fc expression- in our allegiance to School and finally went on to the School * on l soverei ~ Lord Amulree of Mines at Columbia University wheie Commission exemplified a year before he finished his course, he what - - n wou]d becomo j; al _ a was married to Miss Annie Jessup, of combil)ed effort to golve each other , s Montrose, Pennsylvania. In 1891 he difficultieS- Referring to the order of entered the foundry and worked for a Jefer he said that the future of period^ in the central factory itself. New f ound]and was for the people Later, he assumed the post ot general thomselves t0 decide. The Commission superintendent, and at the close of the had come with nQ preconceived ideaSj century became president ot the ex- a]ld with , nf) intention of interfering panding plant, which in 1899 joined tiie with th(jir management o f their own consolidation known as the American affairs< Car and Foundry Company. Eventual- __.■„,. )y in 1916, Mr. ,Woodin became head Mr. Allan MorUibouse. of' this organisation, which is one of Mr. Allan Monkhouse, who has been the largest industrial enterprises in the deported from Russia following his United°StatCS. ' tfial f°r machine- wrecking, is a Man-' Mr Woodiuis--alert, but-somewhat Chester m#'n (though born in New Zeashv He is far remoyed from the sharp land) and a nephew of Mr. Allan N. "executive" of literature, and though Monkhouse, the playwright, he is identified with a wide range of After studying engineering at the boards and companies, he has persisted Manchester College of Technology and in following out his much-loved work working for some years with Messrs. of collecting coins, antiques, and books. Dick, Kerr, and Co., ho went out to He is energetic hard to keep pace with, Russia before the war and established always thinking ahead, and an ardent there a small factory for the manufaefisherman but he would rather obtain a ture of electrical equipment. This he rare etching than a fish. He has been maintained during the war, until the notified with various civic organisa- chaos, which followed the Revolution tinns of New York becoming interested made it impracticable to continue. The in housing, traffic, parks, playgrounds, "Manchester Guardian" gives the and traffic problems, and when Presi- above details of him and also what S omiL himself ono of a small of a pec^al "ommTttee to study and group of Englishmen'in Moscow with on a spi.Liai i.v ,„„!,:„„ i qw . To- n° further reason for staying m Rusrcvise New York's banking t * day he is connected with te A™enc^ it ' The war waa not Sver; escape Ta*gore Association^ *«'««er«f ° westward, into Austria or Germany, or Council, of Adult-Education fox the ' through1 the Baltic/was Foreign Born, and aasociatg ™th *c BO 'the.party turned eastPresident as a trustee of the <*«*„£ In the general disorganisation of Warm Springs FounNation, which is t , sue ded in secU ring a maintained to treat sufferers from in raU^y locomotive and. two or three fantile paralysis. coaches, in which they set off along the Major-General Sir A. W. Bouin. main line of the Trans-Siberian Railmdjui to' wav< weeks of anxious travelTho highest order in the Scout move- ];n^ broken f re qucntty to obtain food ment -the Order of the Silver \Voii, nas Qr wood tQ fir(j thfl engin6) they Teao h e d been awarded to Major-General bir A. yiadivostock, and were taken off by a W. Robin. Sir Alfred has had a long Japaneso eruiscr . . and distinguished military career, Mr< Monkhouse arrived in England 'which he commenced in the Otago isoys agaill ag a ser g Can t in the Canadian High School Cadets. Upon leaving amY) w hich he had joined on his way school he joined the B Battery,- ]N.A.i'.a., homc _ Tnc war ended SOO n afterwards, and on the formation of the Otago bu( . < not £or him . ,i ulow ] ed g e o f EusHussars in 1882 he transferred as a sian naturally led to his being picked trooper, rising to sergeant-major within ag a membe - r o f the Archangel expedieightecn. months. He . was _ promoted tiol^ devised by - Mr _ Churchill, .which lieutenant in 1889 and captain in 1891. jj 6 acc ompanied as an engineer. Ho was commander of the Squadron of Back from Archangel, he joined the Pakehas and Maoris which represented staff oi Metropolitan-Viekers, Ltd., and New Zealand at the Diamond Jubilee soon re turned to. Russia as their reprecolebrations inLondon. While in Eng- sen tative. For the past decade he has land he astonished the Imperial officers been en g a g ed \ n putting up power stawith whom the colonials were quartered f lons anc i carrying out other engineerby his intimate knowledge of his work, j ng projects on behalf of the company and it was reported that inducements anr i o f the Russian Government. were then held out to him to take up an ]yj; r> Monkhouse is married and has army career, but he remained true to t wo children, who sometimes accomhis country, and returned with the con- panied him on his post-war visits to tingent. In 1898 he was appointed Russia. His son, Deryck. had at one Major in Charge of the Otago Battery time tho. distinction of beinp the of Mounted Volunteers, and while in youngest British subject in Russia, that position he established a tactical T] l6 family are, however, in England, school for mounted officers, by which Mr. Monkhouse is about 45 years of they were trained in the very latest a g e , traced 8 and cimmSdef the °flr*VS Mr" A" Fenner BrockwayZoalsmd which was dis- Mr. Archibald Fenner Broekway, who patched to South Africa in October, was president of the.lndependent Lab--1899 and afterwards commanded the our Party which sat in conference at Ist 2nd, and 3rd New Zealand Con- Derby tins week is a journalist, author, tingents combined. In June, 1900, he and politician of some repute. Mr. was promoted lieutenant-colonel on the Brockway was born in Calcutta in the drawing up of the universal tram- No-Conscription ing scheme which was passed by Par- fl imprisoned for liament in 1909, and later cndoised by .^ f Refusing to Lord Kitchener On the appointment ? fc or rendorinB l al t or . of Major-General Sir A- J. Godley to gcrvico at ' hom<J- In lno be command the New Zealand Defence ap p oin ted joint secretary of the Forces in 1910 Sir Alfred was appoint- I Coramitt ll ee of Indian National ed adjutant and quartermaster-general. o.c and the following year he In March, 1912, he was appointed Do- hcc! f mo ioint secl . ctary of the. Prison minion representative on the Imperial g gtem i nqu iry Committee. He was apGeneral Staff at the AVar Office, Lon- pointCfl orgall ising secretary of the Indon, and in Juno of the same year re- (lependent T_, abom . Party in 1922, and ceived his commission as colonel in the tnQ Ramo year wag L abour candidate Imperial Land Forces. He attended £or j ja n ea ster. He rose to become the Imperial Army manoeuvres in Eng- g enera i secretary and later chairman land in 1912 and 1913, and the Grand of the x.h.T. For five years, from 1923 Manoeuvres in France in 1913. He re- to lg2 B, he was chairman of tho No turned to New Zealand in 1914, and in More War Movement and War RegisFebruary he was appointed quarter- ters > international. Mr. Brockway was master-general ■to the New Zealand f ra t e rnal delegate to the Indian Trm'le Forces. On receipt of advice from Sir Tjmcm Congress and the Indian Nalan Hamilton in June, 1914, Sir Alfred tional Congress in 1927. He becommenced to reorganise the adminis- came editor of the "New Leader" in trative side of the New Zealand Head- 1926, and occupied that position until quarters and Forces. During the war 1929. In 1931 he was re-elected chairhe was Acting-Commander of the New man of the Independent Labour Party. Zealand Forces within the Dominion, He has been member of Parliament and two years after the termination of (Labour) for East Leyton since 1929. hostilities he served a term as acting- Mr. Brockway is the author of numeradministrator of Western Samoa. ous books and pamphlets.