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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 10

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Cabinet Ministers

MAJORITY RETURNING NEXT WEEK

• After this week-end there will be little relaxation for Ministers of the Crown, whose duties will include preparation of legislative measures for the resumption of Parliament next month. Most of them, -though still attached to administrative work by telegraph, have enjoyed the Christmas and New Yefj’. holiday period at their homes. The majority will return to their Ministerial suites next week. . The Prime Minister, the' lit. Hon. J. TV. Forbes, is due in Wellington z ou Tuesday, morning from Canterbury. Advice has not yet, been received as to the return of the Minister of Finance, the Rt. Hou. J. G. Coates, from Darga.ville,;. The Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Minister of Justice and Defence, who was at his office in Wellington yesterday, left-in the afternoon for Feilding, to spend the week-end at home. He will return to the capital on Monday. It is expected that the Hon. J, Bitchener, Minister of Public Works, who has been spending the holidays at Waimate, will return with .the Prime Minister on Tuesday morning.. The Hon. E. A. Ransom, Minister of Lands, will return to Wellington on Monday evening. Other- Ministers expected in the city on the same date are the Hon. 0. E. Macmillan (Minister of Agriculture), the Hon. It Masters (Minister of Industries and Commerce), and the Hon. S. G. Smith l(Minister of Education).

Thd.Hon. Adam Hamilton, Post-master-General, whose health .still calls for care, is unlikely to return to Wellington Icfo're the middle of this month. He will .visit Dunedin on January 12 for the laying of the foundation stone of the new post office there by his Royal Highness the Duke of ' Gloucester. Late this month Mr. Hamilton has several engagements in the North Island.

The Hon. J. A. Young (Minister-of Health) is accompanying the Duke of Gloucester throughout’the tour of the Dominion.. -, .