NEW BRITISH CABINET

Gisborne Times, Volume L, Issue 5071, 14 January 1919, Page 5

NEW BRITISH CABINET

LLOYD GEORGE’S MINISTRY.

ADDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS. '

Australian and N.z. Oablo Association. (Received Jan. 13, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. -11. The following additional appointments to the British Cabinet are announced:— '• . , Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords (£2OOO) —Earl Ourzon (U.). !, Secretary for. War (£5000) and Minister of Air—Right Hon. Winston Churchill (L.). President of the Board of Trade (£SOOO) —Sir Albert Stanley. President of the Board of Agriculture (£2000)— Right Hon. R. E. Prothero (U.). President of- the Board ;.of Education (£2OOO) —Right .Hon. H. A. L. , Fisher. - - Minister for Munitions' (£5000), to become Minister of Supply—* Right Hon. A. -Weir. Minister of Food (£2OOO) —Right Hon. G. H. Roberts (Lab'J. Shipping Controller (£2OOO) —Sir Joseph Maolay (L.). Minister of Labor (£2OOO) —Right Hon. R. S. Horne. Minister of Pensions (£2OOO) —Sir L. Worthington Evans (U.). First Commissioner of Works (£2000) —Sir .Alfred Mond (L.). Solicitor-General (£6OOO and fees) — Sir E. M. Pollock. K.C. (U.).. Postmaster-General (£2500) —Right Hon. Albert Illingworth (L\). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (£20,000) —Lord French. Under Home Rule Secretary (£1500) —Sir H. Greenwood (LJ. (Received Jan. 13, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, Jan.. 11. The Government proposes to establish a Ministry of Ways and Communications, which, if adopted, Sir Eric Geddes will control. ~ -

COMMENT OF NORTHCLIFFE PRESS.

“MANY PALPABLE MISFITS.”

(Received Jan. 13, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 11. The Times in a, leader, states that the new Cabinet is merely a reshuffle. There are many palpable misfits, pervading an air of staleness. The Cabinet probably is intended as a stop-gap during the Peace Conference, pending the launching of a reconstruction policy, but Mr. Lloyd George lias gravely shaken confidence m his power of choosing and placing men.

The Daily Mail, in a leader, says that the old influence is too strong for Mr. Lloyd George. Many of the appointments are purely political.

FATE OF WOMEN CANDIDATES.

ONLY ONE RETURNED AT HEAD OF POLL. LONDON,- Dec. 27. CShristabel Pankhurst, Viola Markham, Mary Macar.thur, Mrs Lawrence. Mr s Strachey, and Mrs Daspard, were all defeated. ■ Mr Carter (Labor) defeated Miss Markham. Mrs Despard. who stood as a Labor candidate for Battersea North, was defeated by Mr Morris (Coalition (Liberal). Th e voting was: Morris 7231, Despard 5634, The Countess Markiewicz was elected among the Sinn Feiners. Mrs Pethick Lawrence was beaten in Rusholnie (Manchester) by a stoker, standing as a Coalitionist. Mrs Strachey (together with a Laborite, Mr Geddes) was beaten in Brentwood (Middlesex) by Colonel Grant Morden.