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Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1926, Page 1

The new Minister of Public Works will take office amid a chorus of approval. Aft Coates has waited a long time before making this final appointment, and he has left the installation of Mr Tv. S. Williams, the member f Ol . Bay of Plenty, until very close to the opening of the session.; but now that the appointment has wen announced there will he little cnt.c.sm „f the Prime Minister’s choice. Mi Williams has been selected without any reference to length of parliamentary service' and he enters the Ministry ns a voung mail, two facts that are in his favour. He Is ft “backblocks farmer and a man well experienced in local administration. The portfolio of Public Works is an important one in this country, and it is a matter f n congratulation that the man who Mill have charge of this department jscon versant with the needs of the country districts. Mr Williams is the type of man to whom the public can look to r .,rrv on the doctrine enunciated » Mr Coates when he took over tus department; the cessation of the practice of feeding constituency cupidity as a means of securing votes.—Southland “Times.”