NEW CABINET

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 281, 7 November 1924, Page 5

NEW CABINET

Mr. Baldwin’s Team Principal Offices Filled MR. CHURCHILL CHANCELLOR. COLONEL AMERY AT COLONIAL OFFICE. [By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.] (Received 7, 10.15 a.m.) London, Nov. G. Tho following appointments to the Cabinet are officially announced: — The Right. Hon. L. C. M. S. Amery, Secretary of State for tho Colonies. Lord Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India. The Right Hon. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Right Hon. W. C. Bridgman, First Lord of the Admiralty/ Tho Right Hon. Sir Samuel Hoare, Minister of Air. OTHER PORTFOLIOS. OFFICE DECLINED BY LORD DERBY. (Received 7, 11.35 a.m.) London, Nov. 6. The “Daily Telegraph” . forecasts that Mr. Neville Chamberlain will be Minister of Health. Sir Kingsley Wood Minister of Agriculture, the Earl of Crawford Minister of Works. The “Morning Post” states that Sir Robert Horne will probably b© unable to join the Ministry because of business commitments. Lord Derby, refused office in any capacity. While he whole-heartedly supports the Conservatives he feels there is plenty of material available for Cabinet-making, and prefers to devote his time to Lancashire affairs, political and otherwise. Prominent Liberals held a conference and decided that Mr. Asquith should address his followers at the Reform Club on Monday before his departure on a holiday in Egypt. Tho national conference of Liberals has been fixed for early in 1925 to discuss the position of the party.—(A. and N.Z.) PERSONAL NOTES. Colonel Amery, who again becomes Secretary of State for the Colonies, was born in India. At the time of the South African war he organised the war correspondence of “'lhe Times.” During the Great War he saw active service, acted as an Assistant Secretary of the War Cabinet, and was on the staff of the Supreme War Council at Versailles. Afterwards he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies. 1919-21, and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1921-22. He was First Lord of the Admiralty ill Mr. Baldwin’s former Cabinet. He is 51 years of age. Lord Birkenhead, the new Secretary of State for India, was Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1919 to 1923. As Sir F. E. Smith he sat in the House of Commons for in.any years, and was Attorney-General from 1915 to, 1919. Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1921 to 1923. He had been the member for Dundee since 1908, being defeated at the 1922 election. In a by-election for Westminster Abbey in March last he was defeated by Mr. Otho Nicholson by a small majority. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, entered the House of Commons in 1892. and his first Ministerial appointment was in 1895 as Civil Lord of the Admiralty. He was afterwards successively Financial Secretary to the Treasury, PostmasterGeneral, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. During the war he served as Secretary, for India, 1915-17, and was a member of the War Cabinet. 1918. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer, 191921, and in the latter year succeeded Mr. Bonar Law as Lord Privy Seal and leader of the House of Commons. He is the member for Birmingham West, and is aged 61. Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary for Air, succeeded to the baronetcy in 191$, at the age of 35 years. He acted as assistant private secretary in 1905 to Mr. Lyttelton, who was then Colonial Secretary. He was a member of the London County Council for three years. He has been M.P. for Chelsea since 1910. In 1912 he served as a member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service. During the war he was a lieutenant-colonel on the General Staff. Mr. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, has been the member for the Oswestry Division of Shropshire since 1906. He was the first occupant of the office of Secretary of Mines, which was created in 1920. Earlier he was one of the junior Opposition Whips in 1911, a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in 1915. the Assistant-Direc-tor of the War Trade Department, in the following year, and Parliamentary Secretary successively of the Ministry of Labour and of the Board of Trade. He was Home Secretary in Mr. Baldwin’s former Cabinet. His age is'6o. MR. THOMAS’S WORK. EULOGISED BY “THE TIMES.” (Received 7, 11.25 a.m.) London, Nov. 6. “The Times” eulogises Mr. Thomas’s work at the Colonial Office. It says it ■ is one of the few personal records of i Mr. MacDonald’s Government which is ! not only irreproachable but carries a certain "distinction.—(Times.) THE CONSERVATIVE POLICY. NO REACTION. . (Received 7, 11.35 a.m.) London. Nov. G. Sir Joynson Hicks, presiding at the council of the Primrose League, said he knew Mr. Baldwin was determined that there, should be no reaction in the policy of the Conservative Party. Mr. Baldwin intended to proceed with 1 a policy of social reform and carrying out the pledges given to the people.— (Reuter.) THE SINGAPORE BASE. MR. BRUCE CONFIDENT OF ACTION. Sydney, Nov. G. Speaking at a Nationalist Club luncheon in Sydney, Mr. Bruce said he was confident the new British Government would go ahead with the Singai pore base and give effect to the deci- - sions of the Imperial Conference. He - had received intimation from the Con--5 servative party within the past two s months that it had agreed to give 3! effect to these proposals. He looked x j forward with absolute confidence to U early steps being taken to carry out T I the Empire defence scheme and make 5 provision for the encouragement of p mter-Empire trade.