CABINET CHANGES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14820, 25 October 1911, Page 7

CABINET CHANGES.

THE ADMIRALTY.

MR. CHURCHILL'S NEW POST.

OTHER ALTERATIONS.

By. Telegraph.—Press Association.-Copyright. ' (Received October 24, 10.30 p.m.) ' ! London, October 24. The following rearrangement of the Ministry is announced :— WITHIN THE CABINET. Mr. Reginald McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, becomes Home Secretary. , Mr. Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, becomes First Lord of the Admiralty/ Earl Carrington, President of the Board of Agriculture, becomes Lord Privy Seal. Earl Crewe resigns the position of Lord Privy Seal, but retains the post of Secretary of State for 1 India. - Mr. "Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Education, becomes President of the Board of" Agriculture. Mr. J. A. Pease, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, becomes President of the Board of Education. Mr. C. E. Hobhouse, Financial Secretary, to the Treasury, attains Cabinet rank by becoming Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. OUTSIDE THE CABINET. Mr.- F. D. Acland, Financial Secretary to tli3 War Office, becomes Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs

Mr. T. McKinnon Wood, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office, becomes Financial Secretary to the Treasury. • Lord Lucas, Under-Secretary to the War Office, becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture. Mr. Alfred Emmott, Chairman of Ways and Means and DeputySpeaker, who is raised to the Peerage, becomes Under-Secretary for the Colonies. Mr. J. H. Whitley, Liberal M.P. for Halifax, Deputy-Chairman of Ways and Means, and a former Lord of the Treasury, will be proposed by the Government as successor to Mr. 'Alfred Emmott as Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy-Speaker. V

THE ' MINISTERS CONCERNED. Mr. McKenna, it has been said, " combines a faculty for v. mathematics with a love of rowing, .and lias distinguished himself in the schools and on the river." lie also held the fort at the Admiralty offices during the most strenuous portion of the German scare period, and his statement on the Naval Estimates in 1909 caused sensation. Undoubtedly he bore his burden well. As president of the Board of Education in 1907-8, he made little progress with the thorny denominational schools' problem, but neither has anyone -else. Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill, who, in the Soudan campaign in 1908, rode in the 21st Lancers' charge, and later made, a dramatic escape from the Boers, was president of the Board of Trade before going to the Home Office. In the latter capacity he . has "probably nfot added very greatly tojhis reputation/but he is a dashing party fighter, and is not likely to be a little navy man. • j .. " • - • Lord • Carringtojn is leader of . the small holdings movement. He is credited with the ownership of 33,000 acres. From 1885 till 1890 he was Governor of New South Wales. Lord Crewe, ifrho has led for the Liberals in the Upper • llouse, is described as "a Liberal, an art? connoisseur, something of a poet, a bibliophile, a sportsman, and a man of wealth!" He married the younger daughter of Lord Rosebery.