CABINET MAKING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 6

CABINET MAKING.

♦ RUMOURS AND SUGGESTIONS. MR. MABSKY DKCI.INKS TO DISCUSS 'J'HK QUESTION. (Bj Tolcem ph.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, December IS. Aucklnnd is moro than proud of over tliii elections, and is now getting ttiitcli amuauiii.'nt uul of tiio efforts til Ministers mid iho Government prca? to explain :i.wav Hit) revolt ot the country against tiu> 'Ward Administration. Telegrams congratulation Irom a parts of New Zealand, and from ttl. cla»es of Iho community aro pouring in 011 .Mr. Massey. 'J'liey aro accumulating in piles, and cablegrams of congratulations on his splendid victory aro reaching liim from London and other parts of tho world. During tho day interest lu>.<i naturally central in tho personnel of tho coming M.'issey Cabinet, and n forecast was published in Iho "Herald" this morning. I saw Sir. Massey on tho subject to-day, an<l ho replied that ho was not going to talk. T.lic torrents of misrepresentations emanating from Ministers and their niouthpiecos did not perturb him in tho least. They wcro woloomo to it if they got any satisfaction from such doings. Tuo supporters of tho Reform party knew him and knew the men they had olected. Tho Government oould scrcam it.self hoarse. Tho country had decidcd, and tho country know best. Tho Government was floundering, and tho country had left it behind on tho road of progress and reform. With regard to tho suggestions about a Cabinet, ho would wait till ho reached tho Cabinet-making stage, and ho had not arrived at that yet. There tho matter rests in the meantime. Jt lias, however, boon suggested that the future Minister for Labour will bo Mr. Veitch, of Wanganui. The portfolio of Public Works may lie allotted to a North Island representative, for t'ho reason that in the North Island there is the greatest extent of country to be opened up lo settlement, and in all probability Mr. Ilerries may be found in chsirgo of Native Affairs, a Department ho is eminently fitted for, while Mr. James Allen may ba placed in chargo of Finance. It has also been suggested that Mr. G. M. Thomson may bo placed in chargo of Education. Mr. Massey himself is as a sphinx on tho Rubject. It may be taken for granted, howover, that when Mr. Massey comes to form a Cabinet, he is going to select the ablest men for tho positions. THE STRENGTH OF PARTIES. WHERE THEY CLEARLY MET. Owing to tho fact that in a few of the contests there were no Government nominees, and in a largo number no Reform candidates, the only possible analysis of the voting at tho elections must bo based on a consideration of those eontests in which at the first ballot or the second ballot the final result found Government and Opposition candidates opposed to each other. There were 51 such contests, and the votes cast make these totals: — Opposition 165,883 Government 147,810 On tie basis 6f comparing tho actual cases in which the two parties met, therefore, tho parties stood in the country in tho above ratio. From the Opposition wo have excluded the votes cast for tho various candidates who, thongh not officially members of tho Reform party, are pledgod to yoto against the . Government. MAORI ELECTIONS. ' POLL ON TUESDAY NEST. Parliamentary representatives of the Northern, Western, and Southern Maori districts will be elected on Tuesday next. It was announced a fortnight ago that Mr. Ngata hod been returned unopposed to .represent the Eastern Maori district. Following are the candidates nominated in the three districts which are to have a contest:— Northern Maori.—-To Rangihiroa, Jehu Moetara, Hem: to Paa, Huirtia Tito, Reiliana Netana, Wireniii Tuaurn Kowhai, Eru Ihalca, Riapo Timoti Puhipi, Kalot' Porowirii, Heropeto Rapihana, Wiri Nohua. Western Maori.—Henaro Kaihau, Maui Pomare, Pepene Eketono, Ngarangi Taingakawa, Pomare Hctaraka. Southern Maori.—James Apes, Teono Matapura Erihana, Taare Parata, Haimona Patete, John Hoppre, Wharewhiti Urn, Tahuaroa Karira Watson. Tn tho Northern districts tho prospects of Te Rangihiroa (Dr. Buck) are strengthened by the fact that his opponents an so numerous. It is understood that some of them would otherwiso have given him a close run for his seat, and in view of roeont events it is hard to sajr what will happen. In tho Western district Mr. Henare Kaihau's most prominent opponent is. Dr: Pomare, Into Native Health Officer, ivho is understood to be a supporter of tho Reform party. It is.generally considered that he would make A valuable representative of tho Native race, for whom he did a great deal of useful work in tllO capacity of Health Ofliccr.