PREMIER BUSY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 59, 31 October 1931, Page 3

PREMIER BUSY

°t ' 'ress Assn.-

ECONSTRUCTION OF CABINET W IS HIS FIRST ■ei TASK INISTERS FORMALLY RESIGN

— By Telegraph — Copyright).

Rec. Oct. 30 — 10.25 p.m. ' • LONDON, Friday. The coming session is likely to be lort. No emergency tariff will be in■oduced as a close inquiry is first !. ecessary. One of the earliest prolems is to counteract dumping, which as been partly checked by the depreiation of the pound sterling. Mr. MacDonald is preoccupied with !af econs^ruc^nF his Cabinet. All the resent Ministers are formally reigning in order to give the Prime linister a free hand. It is suggested ai hat Mr. Snowden may be appointed ,ord Privy Seal in additio'nal to beng raised to the peerage. Mr. Baldwin does not intend to Mi ake a departmental post but will coninue as Lord President of the Coun,u: il. He will thus be able to assist Mr. ilaeDonald in the leadership of the louse of Commons. | The newspapers draw attention to he Conservatives' success at places ?liere there was heavy unemployment. fhey instance Burnley, where Mr. Irthur Henderson was beacon decisvely and where 33.7 per cent of the lectorate is unemployed. "ii Similarly, they referred to Black(ja >ool, which returned two Conservat-j-.'Ves in place of Labour members, * ' lioug'h 48.7 per cent of the electorate s unemployed.