COMMERCE COMMISSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 308, 25 June 1912, Page 3

COMMERCE COMMISSION

NEW 'ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVE | :r - APPOTNTMD.', , -• 5 jlt-iS officially,announced,that. the Hon. John 'Kober.t .'ton. appointed NW . Zealand representafive on the : Imperial Trade Commission in place oi Sir.Jgseph Ward, who .resigned his apppintmeilt. '. ' . : The }Ioi). Sinclair,, \?ho at present ip'Eiigland', was born at AnglesiJa, North Wales,, in 1850, an;l aduc'<ited at the I)iinedi.n Boys' High School, .lyas , admitted to. the New, Zealand Bar,'ip. 1875, apd ip chairman, of the, Bpaj-jT.-of.' Governors-of ihe.Dunedin High He was appointed to the Legislative Council! in 1907. , ... . The' personnel of the Imperial Trade Commission, which consists of. six niembers from ,t;he ,United Kingdom and one. each from the five Dominions, is ,as follows: . , . ■ . ' THE .UNITED KINGDOM., I Company, and of the Australian United and British India Steam Navigation Companies (chairman). Sir Edgar Vincent, former M.P. for Exeter; Financial .Adviser to the Egyptian Government, 1883-89.-Sir Charles John Owens, late General Manager of the Lond"i and South ' - Western Railway. __ , .Sir Henry Rider Haggard," the' well- ' known writer and authority on British Agriculture. Mr. Tom Garnett (Manchester), member of the firm of Thomas Garnett and I Sons, cotton spinners, Low Moor, Clitheroe. Mr. William Lorimer (Glasgow), Chairman of the North British Locomotive Companv, Ltd. THE DOMINIONS. Cannrla.—The Hon. George E. Foster, Minister of Trade and Customs. Australia. —Mr. Donald Campbell, formerly member of the Legislature of South Australia. South Africa.—Sir Richard Solomon, High Commissioner of South Africa. New Zealand.—The Hon. John Robert Sinclair, member of the New Zealand Legislative Council. Newfoundland.—The Hon. Edgar Bowring. member of the Legislative Council. Mr. W. A. Robinson, of the Colonial Office, is Secretary to the Commission. The Commissioners will confine them-p-elvs to the resources of the United Kingdom and the Self-Governing Dominions, and they mav suggest, "by what I methods consistent always with the existing fiscal policy of each part of the Empire, the trade of each part with the others may be improved and extended." I The inaugural sittings of the Commis- / sion will be held in the United TCiiijj- \ dom, and' commenced on June 13. The I Commissioners expect to arrive in Aus- , t.ralia—the first of the oversea DominI ions to be visited—in February next.