THE WAR MINISTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15932, 1 June 1915, Page 8

THE WAR MINISTRY.

MINOR APPOINTMENTS.

POST FOR LORD ISLINGTON.

LABOUR REPRESENTATIVES. London, May M. It is officially announced that the following Ministerial appointme. •'.., have been made :-- Parliamentary Under-Secretaries, Mr. Wtn. Bruce, Labour member for Glamorgan, Home Office, succeeding Mr. E. J. Griffith, M.P. Lord Robert Cecil, Uni -list member for the Hitchin Division of Herts, Foreign Office, succeeding Mr. F. D Acland, M.P. Mr. A. H. D. R. Steel Maitland, Tr... •-!- member lor East Bir-mir.-:'\v ~ Colonies, succeeding Lord Islington. Lord Islington, px-Governor of New Zealand, India, succeeding Mr. C. H. t; bcrts, M.P.

Mr. H. J. Tc.mant, Liberal member for Berwickshire, retains the post n". Unue.'-Secretary for War.

Mr. E. '>■ Fret} man, Unionist membe.- for Chelmsford Division of Essoa-, Board of Trade, succeeding Mr. J. M. Robertson, M.P.

Mr. W. Hayes Fisher, Unionist member for Fulham, Locr.l Government Board; succeeding Mr. J. H. Lewis, M.P.

Mr. Francis Dyke Acland, Liberal member for Camborne, Board of Agriculture, succeeding Sir H. C. Vcrnej, M.P.

Mr. T. H. Lewis, Liberal member for .'lint Boroughs, Board of Education, succeeding Dr. C. Addison. Dr. C. Addison, Liberal member for Hoxton, Munitions Department. Mr. 11. Pike Pease, Unionist member for Darlington, Assistant-Postmaster-General, succeeding Captain C. W. Norton, M.P. Mr. T. W. Russell, Liberal member ■for North Tyrone, retains his post as Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ire- . land. Joint Secretaries of the Treasury. Mr. J. W. Gulland, Liberal member . ' for Dumfries Burghs, Chief Liberal Whip. Lord Edmund B. Talbot, Unionist member for Chichester and Chief Unionist Whip. [The office of Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury was formerly' held by the Chief Ministerial Whip.] Junior Lords of the Treasury. . Mr;. G. H. Roberts, Labour member -;' for Norwich. Mr ? G. Howard, Liberal member for ... ""' Westbury. 1 «> : Mr. W. Clive Bridgeman, Unionist 'member for Oswestry. Mr. Walter R. Rea,. Liberal member k for Scarbirough. [Succeeding Mr. J. W. Gulland, M.P., Mr. W. Wedgwood Benn, M.P., Mr. W. Jones, M.P., and Mr. H. Webb, M.P.] . v _ Financial Secretaries. Mr. 'Henry W. Forster, Unionist member for Sevenouks, Kent, . War Office. Dr.' T. J. MacNamara, Liberal member for Camberwell, retains his post as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty.

SINKING OF PARTY.

MB. ASQUITH'S CONVICTION.

URGENCY JUSTIFIES CHANGE.

limes and Sydney Sun Services. (Received May 81, 5.55 p.m.) London, May 30.' Mr. Asauith, in a letter to Mr. J. W. Gulla'nd, Chief Liberal Whip, said that the new Cabinet implied a temporary abandonment of party government, which had been in operation since 1832,' and which, he believed, was best adapted to the national requirements under normal conditions. It was possible that the ■' sudden upheaval might astonish and i cause misgiving to many Liberals. The change was justified only by the urgency of the case and national necessity. The conviction had been forced upon him at the cost of infinite personal anxiety that nonparty government wag the most efficient instrument for the successful prosecution of a war. When the national cause war. vindicated they would again take up the unfinished tasks of the Liberal Party.

LABOUR LEADER'S APPEAL.

ALL FOR THE NATION.

iSERVICE IN FIELD AND FACTORY.

London, May 30. A meeting of the Labour Progressive Association at Barnard Castle, held to consider the by-election rendered necessary by the elevation of the Barnard Castle member, Mr. Arthur Henderson, to Cabinet rank, passed £< resolution adopting Mr. Henderson for re-election, and congratulating him on his entry into the Cabinet.

Mr. Henderson, Leader of the Labour Party, in his speech, emphasised the fad that the saving of the nation was a question of primary and essential importance. "/We must," he said, " secure such a force both in the field and in the. factory as wil' enable us to place the issues! both in the field and in the factory beyond all possible doubt." He appealed to all trade unions to give their members the greatest latitude,' if modifications - were necessary, to enable the country to get the xaunijtions required. '.•«'"