A HUMOROUS SIDE DISCOVERED.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13379, 30 March 1912, Page 5

A HUMOROUS SIDE DISCOVERED.

(Special to "The Colonist,")

ChristohUTßh, March 39. Commenting on the new Cabinet the "Press" says: "Most of the selection.--, havo their humorous asi»ct. but the cream of tho jofco is to come— Sir Joseph Ward, the best Postmast-or-General Now Zealand has every had, is to be succeeded in his portfolio by Mr. J. Colvin, an amiable, but rather obtuse, old gentleman from tho West Coast, who at present occupies the position of Chairman of Committee?,. Wo imagine that his unexpected appointment is'tlue partly to .the necessity of placating th'> West Coast particularly in view of the exclusion of Mr Roderick McKonzie, and partly to make room in. the Chairmanship, of Committees for souse member of the party disappointed of a portfolio—possibly Mr. T. H. Davcy. Another humorous exploit consists * in appointing Dr. Buck—To P.-angihiroa as h 0 prefers to call himsnlf —a good, natured young Maori doctor, liot only tobe Minister in charge of the Conk Islands, but-also as Minister in charge of the Government Insurance, and Public Trust Departments. Wo should say that ono might as wo>ll have selected a young Melanesian curate as head of an important shipping, firm." ■