THE NEW MINISTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 317, 7 January 1909, Page 2

THE NEW MINISTERS.

HON. KODEIUCK McKUNZEB comes froui" Boss-shire, Scotland, where he was bora iu 1852. He was educated at Glasgow Academy, and entered the service of the London and Glasgow Engineering aad Jronship Building Company, with which he remained over two | years. He then went to Canada for 'i | •une. Mr. ileiienzie cuiigVnlell 'to' this country in 18(i!) in the ship City of Duuedin, and followed mining in Otngo. |

He subsequently went to the West Coast and engaged in bridge-building. During that time he completed some of the largest contracts in Wcstlsind, including the construction of the-West-port Slnitha at a cost of JCi-lfM). He also built the. railway bridge at Arahiira, and laid the rails to llokitika. He constructed the wharf at J'ervois Quay, Wellington. Mr. McKeuzie was lirst elected to Parlianlent for the Butler scat in 181)1), when he de'eatcd Mr. Eugene O'Connor (the "Huller Lion") by over 300 votes. Ou the readjustment of the electorates, Mr. McKeuzie decided to contest the Motucka seat, and defeated Mr. llursthouse and Major I'ianklyn, of Wakefield. He has had practically a "pocket" constituency ever since. The elevation of -Mr. <l. A. Millar to Cabinet rank on the formation of the Ward .Ministry, in lilOli, left the 'Chairmanship of Coi ittees vacant, and Mr. McKeuzie was elected to the position.

HON. T. AIcKKX/.IE. Commerce, land-surveying, and btislilarimug have been union;;*! Air.'Mackenzie* culling. Ik- tonics iiinn Edinburgh, where hi' was born on March 10th, 1854, and arrived in X<'\v Zealand with his parents in I SSS. Mince 1880 he has been a prominent limine in public life. Air. Mackenzie was iirst elected to the House of I!cpre.-,enlativcs in 1887, for Clutha, and represented that district for nine yeara. in 1889 lie was appointed a Commissioner by the New Zealand Government to proceed to England and inquire into the produce trade, hi 1890 he again visited England, where lie remained for three years, representing several colonial mercantile firms, chiefly in the wool and grain business, and during that time he exposed and stopped many frauds in connection with the New Zealand meat trade. On his return from j the Old Country he was elected to represent Waiheino in the House of liepivscntativcs, and in 1902 was returned for Wnikoiiaili, for which constituency he sat until the alteration of the bounI daries. Last November he stood for I Taisri, defeating the Labor representative, Mr. J. T. Johnson, by 2571 votes to 2000. Air. .Mackenzie' represented New Zealand at the Centennial celebrations in Kydn'cy in 1888. He wn» a) tomlicr of the llnval Commission on the Tariff in 1894. lie was appointed a Governor of the lloyal Imperial Institute in 1897, and sat as a member of the New Zealand Education Commission in 1901. Air. Mackenzie served for seven years a.s a member of the Dalclutha Borough. Council, lie was Mayor of Roslyn from 1901-5. lie has taken a prominent ipart in education matters, being a member of the Otago Education Board for many years and its present chairman. In 1880 he was elected a Fellow of the Colonial Institute, and in 1898 made a member of the Royal Geographical Society. Air. Mackenzie has been a member of various Parliamentary committees during his term in the House, and has taken particular interest in the work of the Extension of Commerce Committee, of which he has been chairman for some time. He holds freehold views on the land tenure question. HON. A. W. i:C!fl. is probably the stuirdie -. leiuocrat in the Liberal Party. He w.is bora in Glasgow in 1840, being educated at Glasgow public schools, aim he also atbsnAjd Andcrsonian Inivcisi'ty. Mr:. ; Hogg arrived in Victoria in 1858, following mining, storekeep ir.-, and journalism. He came to Xcw Zealand in 1877, and managed and edited the Dunedin Age for .some years. He conducted newspapers in Ashburton and Tiniaru up to 1881. Air. Hogg was editor and partproprietor of the Star, Alasterton, from 1881-92. He was a member of the Wellington Land Hoard from 1900 to 1907 and is a member of the Wellington Education Board (since 1891) and Victoria College Council (since 1900). He was chairman of the Parliamentary Land* Committee from 1902 to 1905. In the last Parliament Air. Hogg was a member of the Education, Extension of Comnieiie, anil Agricultural, Pastoral and Work Committees. Mr. Hogg was re 1 garded as a likely member for a portfolio on the first formation of the Ward Administration, but whilst his claims on that occasion were well recognised, hi . -had to give Way to men Vlio were more "in the wirling' for Cabinet rank. HON. A. T. NGATA. The Ybung Maori Party boasts of nc more brilliant member that Air. Apirnna Turupa Xgata, ALP. for the .Eastern Maori district, lie was born at Kawa kiiwa, Te Araron. near East Cape, on July 31st, 18T4. lie entered the Native Village School at Waiomatatini in 1881, anil Te Ante College, llawke's Hay, in 1883. Passing the matriculation in "1890. hi! entered on the liooks of Canterbury College in Alarcli, 1891, passed as U.A. lit the following November examination, and was runner-up for the senior scholarship in political science the same year. He was articled to Mr. (now Justice) Theo. Cooper, of Dovore and Cooper, Auckland, in Alay, 1894. Air. Ngata took his M.A. degree with honors in political science the same year at Auckland, and passed his final L.L.B. in IH9II, being admitted barrister and solicitor in 1887. On the formation of Te Ante Students' Association (Young Maori Party) he was appointed travelling secretary in March, 1899, necessitating his giving up practice, and devoting his time to travelling in Alaori districts, lecttring on sanitation, initiating reforms in sanitation, and undertaking communal sheep-fanning on the East Coast. He was appointed organising inspector to 'the Maori Councils during 1902-4, but resigned that position because of the great development of sheep-fanning among the Maoris of Wniapu county. He was elected to Parliament for'the Eastern Alaori district in December, .1904, and re-elected last November. Mr. Ngata acted on the Koyal Commission of 1905 (under the Native J,and Act of 1904), and in 190(1 on the Commission to inquire into Te Ante and Wanganui Trusts. In 1907 iie was appointed to the Native Land Tenure Commission. Hi! is secretary to the Alaori Congress) Committee. HON. D. BI'DOO. Mr. liuddo has represented Kaiapoi from: 1893-91; and 1599 to the present date. He mis born at Edinburgh in 1852, and educated at Kincardineshire' at a public school and a private grammar school. He adopted engineering as a profession. Air. liuddo came to NewZealand at the age of twenty-one years, settling at Ellcsincre, where he was very successful at farming, lie made a trip to the Old Country, Europe and America I

and oh his return purchased the property on which lie now resides at liangiora. He Ws returned for Kninpoi ut till' general election in ISICI, ile- / fi-ati;i<jf Mr. llichiml Moore by a nuijor- ! itv of 87. Mr. Moore defeated liim at ' tlie election of 18HII, but at. that of 18!)!) he polleil 21811 to Mr. Moore'., 1705. M ' the election Inst November the voting was—Hmlilo 2724, Moore ■)(«;). Mr. ,!' Hniltlo has seen much service in pub- ' lie bodies, mid was ehuirniun of the ' Xorth Canterbury l-.ilueiuio,, Hoard for seven years. He represents Ashlev ? County on the l.yttellon Harbor Hoard, and is a North Canterbury School Commissioner. He wai captain of the Xorth ~ Canterbury Mounted Hides from l'.r'l to I IWUiI. Mr. lludilo'is in I'-'., •„, freehold tenure of laud sell!:- , ■ ilt igninst the agurcyulmn of large ,'sUitcs -X.Z. Times.