THE PRIME MINISTER
. AS OTHERS SEE HIM OPINION OF THE BULLETIN Thus: the Bulletin (Sydney)-:— Peter Fraser, Maoriland's Priminister, in Australia last week for a friendly chat about problems o,f mutual interest, is the second carpen-ter-by-origin to head a Fernland Ministry. The first was Hall-Jones, who had two months of Premiership way back in 1906. Fraser did his early carpentering in his; native Scotland, but when lie arrived in Mi.L. in 1910 lie had to take up wharf-lumping. Then, as now, he didn't talk much, but Avha-t he did s;iy impressed his mates. Inside a year he was. president of the General Labourers' Union. Having acquired facility as a writer, he then became editor of the "Maoril,and Worker," preceding Harry Holland in that chair. Wellington Central put Fraser in Parliament in tt)18, and he still represents that, constituency. Ho became P.M. when M. J. Savage died in April, 19-10., In
war-time lie «puts military necessity before politics, and his War Cabinet represents all parties. Not so affable as Savage, not so bitter as Holla ml, Fraser yet manages to combine the political 'dexterity of the one with the firmncs-s of the other.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 100, 4 September 1942, Page 5
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192THE PRIME MINISTER Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 100, 4 September 1942, Page 5
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