NEW BRITISH CABINET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1926, 14 January 1919, Page 3

NEW BRITISH CABINET.

MINISTERS APPOINTED, MR. 1,1.0 VI) GEORGE'S SELECTION. Loudon, Jmi. .10. The J'dllowin”- appuiuimeats to tlie Cabinet arc announced, the names ol the lute Ministers being given in parentheses : —• Mr Bona a Law, Privy Seal ami Leader ol' the Mouse ol Commons (Earl ol Crawford). Sir E. E. Smith, .Lord Chancellor (Lord Eiulay), Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Chaheellor ol the Exchequer (Mr Bonar Law). Mr. Edward Short 1, Secretary of State lor Home Affairs (Sir George Cave). Lord Milner, Secretary of State for the Colonics (Mr \V. 11. Long). Mr Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War (Lord Milner). Dir. W. H. Long, First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Erie Geddes). Dr. C. Addison, President Loeal Government Board (Sir Auckland Geddes). Brig.-Oeneral -I. E. B. Seely, Air Minister (Lord Weir). Sir Auckland Geddes, Minister lor Reconstruction (Dr. Addison). ■ Sir Gordon Hewarl, Attorney-Gen-eral (Sir E. E. Smith), Mr. .1. I. Maepherson, Chief Secretary for Ireland (Mr E. Shorlt). Dir. Arlluar Balfour, Secretary of Foreign Affairs (re-appointed), Mr L. C. M. S. Amery, Under-Sec-retary for the Colonies (Sir George V. Eiddes). Sir Satyendra Prassano Sinha, Secretary of Stale for India (Mr Edwin S. Montague). Ministers without Portfolio: Sir Jdi'ic Geddes and Dir G. N. Bar'ncs. In the late Cabinet Dir Winston Churchill was (Minister for Munitions; Kir Auckland Geddes was Director of National Service, as well as President of the Local Government Boai'd; Sir Gordon Ilewnrt was Solicitor-General; Mr McPherson was Parliamentary Secretary to I lie War Office; Dir Bonar Law was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Dir Barnes sat in the War Cabinet without portfolio; General Seely was Deputy Minister of Munitions. Mr Chamberlain did not hold office. Several appointments remain imreported.