MORE CABINET CHANGES.
EARLY RETIREMENT OF HON A. L. 1115 RDM AN.
MR D. 11. GUTHRIE LIKELY TO JOIN MINISTRY.
(W.'inganui Chronicle.) Tlio next change that may be expected in the Cabinet is the resignation of the lion. A. L. Ilerdman, who is to take tlio seat on the Supremo Court Bench to bo vacated sliortly by the retirement of Sir John Dcnniston. It is probable that Mr Ilerdman will take his seat on the Bench as soon as possible after the legal vacation at Christmas time, which ends at the end of January. There is no doubt as to who Mr Herdman’s successor m the Cabinet will be. The only candidate in the running is Mr D. H. Guthrie. At present Mr Ilerdman is Attorney-General, Minister in Charge of the Crown Law Odicc, Minister in Charge of Police, and Minister in Charge of the Discharged Soldiers’ Information Department. The Attorney-Generalship will go to Sir Francis Bell almost as a matter of course, and he will also Hake over control of the Crown Law Oflice. Mr Hunan will take over control of the Police, Mr Outline will take the discharged soldiers under Ids wing. The Department is not yet a large one, but it will increase in importance enormously after the war. lie may also lie given some of Mr Massey’s many portfolios.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 19 November 1917, Page 5
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