REFORM DOMINATES
("Post" Special Commissioner).
NEW GOVERNMENT MR. HOLLAND'S IMPRESSIQNS OF COALITION MINISTRY ALLOTMENT OF PORTFOLIOS CRITICISED
WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Mr. H. E. Holland, leader of the j Labour Party, in the House of • Re- ' presentatives, who became leader of , the official Opposition upon the formation of the Coalition Government, could have initiated a discussion on the changed political situation when j the adjournment of the House was moved last 'night after the Prime Minister, the Right Hon. G. W. Forbes, had announced the formation of the Coalition Cabinet and the allocation of portfolios. He confined his remarks, however, to a question regarding the date of the announcement of the Government's policy and the possible postponement of the general elections. Mr. Holland subsequently gave a brief summary of .his first impressions of the new Ministry to your commissioner. "First of all," he said, "I hold the strongest objection to the very important portfolios of Education and Industries and Commerce going to the Legislative Council. I think there will be a general feeling that the Minister holding either of these offices, or any other office of an important character, should be a member of the elected chamber. "The practical dissociation of the Unemployment Board from the portfolio of Labour does not in any way appeal to me," he added. "The two offices are closely related and should go together. An outstanding feature of rearran'gement," added Mr. Holland, "is the way in which most of the major portfolios have been handed over to the Reform Party, including Finance, Public Works, Transport, Customs, Agriculture, Mines, Health, Post and Telegraphs, Labour, Attorney-Generalship, etc. The principal portfolios retained by the United Party are those of Lands, Scientific and Industrial Research, Justice, Railways and Native Affairs. It would appear that for all practical purposes the Reform Party holds a dominating position in the new Cabinet."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 27, 24 September 1931, Page 3
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