Nz's New Islands
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Minister
New Zealand’s new Minister for Islands Territories vs a man of parts—and he would need to be. .As well as the Islands responsibility he will be, additionally, Minister for Transport, Minister in Charge of Civil Aviation, and Min ister in Charge Tourist and Health Resorts.
He is Mr. John Mathieson, a Scot, aged 56, and he gets Me job, of course, as a result of the Labour Party victory at the NZ elections in November.
Formerly a spinner in a Scottish woollen mill, he went to New Zealand in 1925 and was then described as a wool worker. He later joined the staff of Christchurch tram ways and was shortly president of their union until the strike of 1932.
Next feature of his career was that he was publisher of the “Christchurch Star-Sun”.
That is, publisher in the NZ sense—not the American or Australian sense of own ing the paper.