Canton, July 9.
Nakamura, Japanese Con-general at Holchow, will succeed Mr. 'T. Kawai as Consul-General at Canton at the end of this month, and Mr. Kawai will assume the post Consul-General in Shanghai—United Press, Passing through China and Japan on a private trip during the Australian Parliamentary recess, Mr. C. A. Hawker, wt, Mr. (SA.), arrived in Shanghal_ on July 7 on board the s. Fushimi Maru from Singapore, and will continue on to Japan in thai vessel when she sails this evening, Mr. Hawker, who was the Australian Minister of Commerce in 1932, 1s to remain in Japan until July 16, when he is to fl} to Manchoukuo and North China, returning here for a two of three day stay preparatory to sailing for Hongkong in the s. Empress of Asia, and thence theme to Australia, Mr, Hawker is a grandson of the late Mr. G. C. Hawker, sometime speaker of the South" Australian House of Assembly, and was born in Bungaree, Clare, South Australia, He received his education at the Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, - and obtained his degree of M.A. at Trinity College; Cambridge. He joined the Somerset Light Infantry in August, 1914, and served in France and Belgium from 1015 to 1617, being wounded three times and finally invalided from the army with the rank of captain, Mr, Hawker is a pastoralist, an Australian term for those who own "station" with large areas of land used for grazing, as opposed to an agriculturist, "He was elected to the House of Representatives for Wakefield, South Australia, in the general elections of 1929, 1931, and 1934, He held the post of Minister for Markets and Minister for Repatriation from January 6 to April 13, 1932, and alteration of the title of the' Department of Markets to Department of Commerce, held the position of Minister for Commerce from that date to September 23, 1932, Hawker, who' is unmarried, makes a habit' of travelling abroad during the annual summer recess, and last year visited Russia in" this manner, His visits, however, are merely private ones, and he is not travelling in his official capacity.
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