SIR HENRY GULLETT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 9

SIR HENRY GULLETT

DIFFERENCE IN AUSTRALIAN CABINET

TRADE POLICY

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CANBERRA, March 10.

Sir Henry Gullett, Minister in Charge of Trade Treaties, has announced his resignation owing to a difference of opinion wilh his colleagues on the subject of treaties. The resignation came with dramatic suddenness following sharp differences with his Cabinet colleagues on an undisclosed point in trade policy concerning Canada. He left the room and wrote his resignation. He did not return to Cabinet, and failed to attend a farewell dinner tonight to the Prime Minister, Mr. J. A. Lyons, and the Minister of Defence, Sir Archdale Parkhill, on the eve of their embarkation for England for the Coronation.

Sir Henry Gullett, who is 59 years of age, is a journalist by profession, and was associated many years ago with the literary staff of the "Sydney Morning Herald," being . editor for some time of the land column. Sir Henry joined the colours at the outbreak of the War, and after a period of military service filled the post of war correspondent. He is the author of "Australia in Palestine," and he contributed to the Australian official history of the War the volume dealing with the Light Horse campaign in the Holy Land. A member of a familywell known in legislative, agricultural, and newspaper circles, Sir Henry has always been keenly interested in problems of farming and land settlement. In 1920 he was appointed director of the Australian Immigration Bureau, and has been member of Parliament for Henty, Victoria, since .1925. He was deputy-leader of the Opposition, 1929-30; Minister of Trade and Customs, 1928-29 and 1932; and represented Australia at the Ottawa Conference in 1932. He received the K.C.M.G. in 1933.