Political Notes.
• 'Wellington', February 26. 'The vacant portfolios in the Mm- '.'•■ istry have been allotted as follows :— M.G. Walker will bo Minister, in : charge of-the Hospital and Charitablo y Aid,.andEducation. Mr Thus. Thompson will be Minister ; of Justice, with charge of the Police : Detriment, 'which has been separated \ r 'from the' Defence • 3 Jepurhiient, of ;; -which tho Premier will still retain • •cont" .'.'•■■ Mr Tiiompwn will also have control of tho Department of Industries and Commerce. =.-••' ' Mr Hall-Jones is to. bo Miuister of Public Works, and Minister in of the Government Printing OHico. -■' Mr (..'arro'.l will be Acting Colonial fctretarv, jh'uddi ion to being a.memIter of tho Exeeuiivc. 'representing the Xiitivo race and Commissioner of Stamps. Some members of t]io Ministry will probablv take an early'opportunity of replying to .Sir. P. Stout's recent speech' at tho Opera House. Tho Government have decided to make representations to the Imperial authorities respecting the control of Norfolk Island, in regard to which thov think', tho Government of Now Zealand ought to be consulted, ua'tho Island is 1)00 miles closer to New Zealand than to Australia, while tho mission station there forms part of the Ecclesiastical djoceso of Now Zealand.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8364, 27 February 1896, Page 4
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