CABINET-MAKING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1487, 9 July 1912, Page 6

CABINET-MAKING.

. MRrMASSEY'S TASK. ;■ ' AN ABUNDANCE OF MATEKIAL. ' Suggestions lave been made that Mi , . Alassey will have serious trouble in forming a Cabinet. Inquiries among the members of the party show that their leader will riot be at all embarrassed by individual ambitions. '■ "I arii-confidcnt thai.the party is the roost loyal and solid that has ever sat in--the Parliament of New Zealand," said one" prominent member yesterday evening. "We have .known all along that four ■members would certainly be given Cabinet Tank, but,that is all. When the party went into tho lobbies on. Saturday mornjing not one of the lnemberi who voted for (the defeat of the Government knew anyithing about the composition of the new Ministry. Not ono of us had asked -for,or been premised, a portfolio, and wo are all . prepared to accept Mr. Massey's selection en<f support his Ministry." i A want of capable material will not be '|Mr. Massoy's difficulty) 'but rather the inbundance of it. '■•■-. / . ..( Tho Reform party's success at the polls has undoubtedly largely improved the calibre oi the Parliament, and another election will no doubt show a etill further jimproveraent. It is possible that thero (may be a little disappointment at first in ith* case of one or. two -individuals, because . (honours lvave not come their way. but jnombera of > the party have shown, ( «md are still \ showing, siich loyalty [that these disappointments, if any, will jnssuredlyjiot.be allowed tb interfere, with (tho success of the party as a whole. When [the new Cabinet is formed ; t will proljJjibly be found that it is one of tho strong-est-Ministries that has ever occupied the /Treasury benches in New Zealand. i Already there are indication-- that (he j .■Recessions of strength that Mr. Ma-.-sey Jwill gain in the House and in the coun■try will be much greater than was anticipated. Mr. Massey's position is also already considerably strengthened by the '.lact that his opponents are anything but b, happy family. They consist'of "three ■parties and tho rival claims for the leaderShip are such that' any possible selection wilL probably lead to a further hiving-off. tThere is, of course, much speculation as fco tho constitution of Mr. Massey's Cabinot, but Mr.. Massey alone knows what /his Cabinet will be. ■ ,