NEW BRITISH CABINET.

Nelson Evening Mail, 8 February 1917, Page 2

NEW BRITISH CABINET.

The new English Cabinet inclines to .youth. The average age 01 its members is 55 years 8 months. The ages of. all the" member? total 1837. . Sir Robert Finlay, 74, ia the youngest, Sir. Albert Stanley, 41, the youngest member. It is a Cabinet, for it has meii -from* all parts of the United Englishmen-, 20: Srotrmeh, 8; Irishmen, 2 ; -Welshmen, 2 ; Canadian, 1. It is a literary Cabinet. Lord Milner, Lord CxuV.on, 'Mr Balfour, Mr' R. E. Prothero. Dr Addison, Mr B. A. L. Fisher, and Sir Alfred* Mond have all written books. \ ■. It is a business Cabinet. A shipowner, Sir Joseph Paton ftlaclay, of is Shipping Controller. Lord Devoriport is Fod Controller; he is a business- man and Chairman of the Port of London Authority. Sir A. Mond, head of a chemical firm( is' First Commissioner -of Works. Mr Prothero. an authority on agriculture, is' President of the Board of -Agriculture. Sir Albert- Stanley, managing director of the London Omnibus Company and Underground "Electric Railways, is President of the Board of Trade. Lord Rhondda is also wellknown as -a -practical -business man. Mr Gordon Hew?.rt, journalist and -b.arr'>hu\ is Solicitor-General. Dr Addison, (M.a?. for Hoxlon, is Minister for Munitions. Lord Milner ex-Hurh Commissioner for South .Africa. Minister without portfolio. Mr Hodge js Minister for Labour. Mr G. Barne---. Minister for Pensions, is one of the best-known Labour Commoners.