DR. ADDISON'S APPOINTMENT CRITICISED.
(Rec. August 3, 11.25 p.m.) London, August 3. The House of Commons has debated the appointment of a Minister for Eeconstruction (Dr. Addison). Mr. Hcwine moved an amendment which eought to prevent the Minister from advising on commercial, industrial, and agricultural policy, but this was negatived by 89 votes to 64. Sir George Cave (Home Secretary), explained that the Government was solely responsible for matters of policy. The Minister's duty was to make early and valuable recommendations. His salary would be at the rate of X2OOO a year. The appointment was approved by 142 votes to 40.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19170804.2.31.13
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3154, 4 August 1917, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
103DR. ADDISON'S APPOINTMENT CRITICISED. Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3154, 4 August 1917, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in