IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13269, 26 August 1916, Page 9

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

NEW MINISTER OF MUNITIONS. I'lie man who recently succeeded the Lion. 1). Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, is comparatively joung. Hie JU. Hon. Edwin Samuel Montag-i. "" is !)Ut 35 years of age, but lie lias crowded a good . deal of active life into his short career, which may he considered a full and ' accesslul one/ Mr Montagu is the second son of tho first Lord Strathling, and received !1 is early eviration {it Clifton, ami afterwards at tlie City of .>6rtd(iu School and Trinity (College, Cambridge. In 190C> lie was elected Member in the House of Commons for the Chesterton Division of Cambridgeshire and has occupied tlie seal ever since. During his first term lie '-eceived an appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Chancellor of tlie Exchequer, and for two years from 1908 lie was chosen by the IH. Hon. W. H. 4sf|uitli as iiis personal secretary. Tn 1910 he became Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India, and lie call claim the unprecedented distiii'-tion of being tlieiirst man holding litis post sent to India in his administrative rapacity. Last year he became a Priyv Councillor, and entered ( ahinet about the same time, but he lefr it lor his formed post in the 1 leasury 'n May. I'or the second time within a few months last year he nonipied tlie position of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. on the last occasion in succession to Mr Herbert Samuel. 1 e ( haimellry is merely a nominal office, and the duties attaching to it are very .few. Mr Montagu possesses considerable organising ability /m d is a

man ol great determination' ~id pur-vo-e. [ i<ns t ypj,,. | )0 „!.„.,.](,(] t ] )o \ A(l] Aenetui Stnnlev. daughter of Lord Sheffield. His friends predict fc- him .-i very successful career and mark ! im out as one of Britain's foremost statos;::"'l "'' the future. Proof -hat his ahilitv has hcen iwognisefl I,• t | :o I'-ndrrs ; ,i Homo ]j,, s ; n ] )js n;ns , ro _ cent appointment as sir-cosset- to Mr Moyd Oeorgo. as Minister j„ Charge of Munitions.