THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
THE PREMIER'S RESIGNATION.
MR MABSEYS' CABINET.
Sir Arthur Guinnes, Speaker of the House of Representatives, accompanied by a number of members of the House, waited upon the Governor on Saturday, and conveyed to his Excellency the formal taxt of the Ad-dress-in-Reply with the following addition: —
"We feel it. however, to be our duty to submit to your Excellency that it is essential that your Excellency's Government should possess the confidence of the House and of the country, and respectfully to represent to your Excellency that such confidence is not reposed in the Government as at present constituted." His Excellency added to his reply the following paragraph:— "With reference to the paragraph in your reply to my speech, intimat ing to me that the House have not confidence in my advisers as at present constituted, I desire to assure you that I shall take the necesary steps to appoint advisers who will possess the confidence of Parliament."
Mr Mackenzie tendered his resignation to the Governor at 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, and recommended that Mr Massey be sent for. Subsequently Mr Massey was sent for by the Governor and asked to form a Ministry.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 481, 10 July 1912, Page 5
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195THE POLITICAL SITUATION. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 481, 10 July 1912, Page 5
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