HOW WORK IS DONE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 7

HOW WORK IS DONE

DIVISION OF LABOUR.

There are few people probably who can have any idea of the tremendous strain that has fallen upon' the members of the Cabinet since the declaration of war. The stTain ; of course, falls heaviest upon the Prime Minister and .the Minister of Defence, but each member of the Cabinet has taken a fjill share of the responsibility and of th,e work. In the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon Mr. Allen took occasion to refer to a statement that he had not been receiving assistanco from his colleagues. He said, he wished to give an emphatio denial to the statement made by an Opposition member that other members of the Cabinet were not helping tho Minister of Doftmco and tho Prime Minister. Not only had other members of the Cabinet offered to do anything they" could, but they had taken from off his shoulders a good deal of his ordinary work. The Hon. Mr. Bell, for instance, was doaling with the details of the Education Department; the Postmastor-General (the Hon. Mr. Heaten Rhodes) had taken oveT _ the whole of the censorship, and the Minister of Marine (the Hon. Mr. Fisher) had taken over the whole of the insurance matters, while Mr. Bell was also dealing with the insurance of the transports. "It is perfectly true," cow eluded Mr. Allen, "that I have had to work long hours, but, thank goodness, I have kept in excellent health, nnd I believe I. have dono my work well."