FEDERAL CABINET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20113, 26 November 1928, Page 9

FEDERAL CABINET.

VACANT SEAT FILLED.

TRADE AND CUSTOMS MINISTER

(Received November 25. G..j p.m.)

SYDNEY, Nov. 2.1

Mr. IT. S. Oullett, Nationalist member of the Federal House of Representatives for lleuty, Victoria, has been appointed Minister of Trade and Customs, in Hie Federal Cabinet. He succeeds tho late Mr. 11. K. Flatten.

Mr. Henry Somer Gullett was bom at flarston, Victoria, on March 26, 1878, and was educated in the State schools. He began life as a farmer, but joined tho literary staff of the Sydney Morning Herald in 1900. Light years later lie went to Loudon and became a journalistic free lance in fleet Street. He was London correspondent for tho Sydney Daily Telegraph and Sydney Sun. For some years before the war Mi. Gullett was engaged in Australian immigration work at Home. He made a special study of tho subject there, on the Continent, and in the United States and Canada. In 1915 ho was appointed Australian official correspondent with the British and -French armies on the western front. He enlisted in the Australian Field Artillery in 1916, received *1 commission in 1917. was transferred to (he war records department in Palestine, and appointed in 1918 official Australian war correspondent in Palestine. Mr. Gullett is tho author of the official history of the Palestine campaign. He organised the Australian War Museum. He was an Australian delegate to the Palis Peace Conference. 'the Hughes Government appointed him Superintendent of Immigration in 1920, and he accepted the post on the understanding that a certain line would be taken. As it was not he resigned the position and returned to journalism. The London Times was making n strong feature of migration at that time. The Into Lord Northcliffe offered him a salary, equal fo the one he had abandoned, to go to London and run tho paper's migration department, and almost simultaneously his friend and admirer Mr. K. G. Theodore asked liini to look after rural development in Queensland. Rut he had made up his mind to stay in Victoria and to go into politics. He was narrowly beaten for Henty at one election, but won the scat in November, 1925.