SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 5

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

:■ Reconstruction : a peake-butlee , •v ■ v.'' MINISTRY. - (By . Telegraph—Press Association—Copy rich Lt . . ; Adelaide, December 23. Owing to the resignation of Messrs. Coimbe, Mitchell, and : Addison, the Ministry , has beon rearranged as follows:— v' ■■ Mr. A. Pcake, Premier, and Minister for , Lands and Education. ' . Mj. Butlor, Treasurer,':, and Minister for ■ tho Northern Territory. Mr. O'Loughlin, Minister for : Works and Water Supply. ; Mr. Brice, Chief Secretary and' Minister for Industry. ■ Mr. Homburg,. Attorney-General. • Mr. Pascoe, Minister for' Agriculture.

. [The effect of the Peake-Butler fusion is to reduce a. three-party Chamber to a two-party one,.leaving Labour in opposition—a .transformation already accomplished in the Brisbane and New South Wales Assemblies. . late Premier, Mr. Price,' died,j. and Mr.' Pcako succeeded-him in June last, ule new Premier boldly formed' a Ministry witV the' aid of; his personal- following of;eig|ifc'(in''a'house' of 12), ignoring both the liaTßour"party and' the. following ■; of Mr. ■ Richard Butler (a .formor Jlinister in. the Kingston and .'Jenkins .Gov-, ornments, who. had become leader of '• tho Liberal Opposition). Though . the now Ministry: sur'vivedfdefeat by a single- vote,' it was dear that it could not .continue without the support of one party or the .other',: !ahd the Peake-Butler'fusion is the outcome.]