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AN OUTSTANDING CANADIAN HON. N. W. ROWELL ARRIVES TO-DAY. (By Telegraph—Special to “Times.”) AUCKLAND, July 18. The Hon. N. W. Rowell, K.C., one of Canada’s outstanding men, is a passenger by the Niagara, w'hich is due at Auckland on Monday. Mr Rowell, who is a staunch Imperialist, was the leader of the Liberal opposition in the Ontario Legislature for six years up lo 1917. and from that year until 1921 he sat in the Dominion Parliament as a Liberal-TJinnist member for Durham. During his period in the Dominion Parliament he served at various times as president of the council, and vicechairman of the war committee of the Cabinet, president of the Privy Council of Canada. Acting-Secretary of State for External Affairs, and member of the Imperial War Cabinet and Imperial War Conference. He represented Canada at the International Labour Conference under the auspices of the League of Nations at Washington in 1919, and was the Canadian delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva in the following year. Air Rowell has taken a keen interest in educational and church matters in Canada.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12194, 20 July 1925, Page 6
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