DUNEDIN OPINION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 123, 25 May 1926, Page 8

DUNEDIN OPINION

"BEST APPORTIONMENT OPEN TO HIM."

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, Thi<s Bay. The "Otan-o Daily Times" (Reform) commenting on the Cabinet reconstruction, says: "Mr. Wright's appointment as Minister of Education,' in succession to Sir James Parr, upsets, it is true, the somewhat freely expressed anticipation fnat this position would bo allotted _to Mr. Rolleston, but Mr.' Rolleston's suitability for the assumption of the AttorneyGeneralship doubtless earned weigM. Now that all doubts have been .resolved resnecting the identity of tho new Minister of Education, the community will np doubt bo prepared to give Mr. Wright credit in his new capacity of justifying Mr. Coates's anticipatory observation last week, that tho teachers could expect 'a very good appoint- | inent,' that of a man who would work heart, and soul- with them with the object of doing the best possible. If the new Minister of Education should, show <i disposition to steady the educational pace set by his predeeessorin office, the public will not have occasion to grumble. "Mr. Rolleston's qualifications for the Attorney-Generalship are not in' question, and ho may be depended upon to maintain the political prestige which attaches to the name he bears. Some prophets have been giving passing attention to rumours respecting tho possibility of a change in the Speakership, but wo should he very much surprised to learn that these had any serious foundation." The "Evening Star" (Liberal) says: "Mr. Coates has not been hasty in the reconstruction, of his Cabinet. Pronounced deliberation may be said rather to have marked his dealing with the problem; but in choosing slowly he has had the best opportunity for choosing Buroly, and his final decision —not quite final yet, since the Minister of Public Works requires still to be appointed—

probably represents the best selection and best apportionment of portfolios that were open to him."