A NEW MINISTER
MR ANDERSON APPOINTED. MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS. ANOTi fK R APP DINT’ AIEN T PMOB.Ui L E (By Tflegrapb.—Press Association.) P WELLINGTON. Thursday. The Prime Minister has announced 11 1 a|. Mr G. .1. Anderson, member for MataUra, ha#“ been appointed lo the. Ministry. He will ta,ke Hie portfolio of Internal Affairs. It is possible that another Minister will be appointed later. Mr Anderson was horn at Baekereek, Bendigo, Victoria, in 1800 and came to New Zealand with ids parents in 1802, when they settled in Otago. Me was educated at Lawrence Grammar School, and in Ids early years' followed the printing trade, hut during the past 20 years lias been engaged as a journalist. He was one of the founders of the Canterbury Typographical Union. He was elected as member for Mataura as. a Reform supporter in 1908, and has hold tiie seat since. He has always taken a great interest in education and was for some time a member of the Southland Education Board and the Dunedin School Committees’ Association.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14362, 13 May 1920, Page 5
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175A NEW MINISTER Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14362, 13 May 1920, Page 5
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