BUSY TIME

Southland Times, Issue 21096, 30 May 1930, Page 7

BUSY TIME

CABINET MEETINGS

FINALIZING PROGRAMME

MINISTERS REMAINING IN IYELLINGTON

(Per United Press Association.)

Wellington, May 29.

“We are getting down to work straight away and from now onward Cabinet meetings will be held almost daily until June 26 to finalize the Government’s legislative programme,” said the Prime Minister (the Hon. G. W. Forbes) in an interview following a meeting of Cabinet last night. Mr Forbes repeated his earlier statement that Ministers would have to forego their visits outside Wellington and would be obliged to decline invitations to functions in the interests of the legislation the Government would submit to the House.

“We expect to have our programme well forward,” Mr Forbes added. “Instructions have been issued already’ to the departments to have their reports ready for presentation early in the session.”

TWO MEETINGS HELD

MINISTERS IN OFFICES.

Wellington, May 29

It has not taken the new Ministry long to settle down to business. Two meetings of Cabinet were held to day. The Hon. G. W. Forbes is now installed in the Prime Minister’s department and the Ministers are in occupation in their offices. Changes of suites were necessary only in the cases of the Hons. E. A. Ransome, who is now in the quarters recently occupied by Mr Forbes, the Hon. W. B. Taverner, and the Hon. W. A. Veitch.

Mr Taverner is in Mr Ransom’s old suite, one time the meeting place of the Massey Ministry and the National Cabinet, and Mr Veitch has the quarters Mr Taverner vacated. The Hon. A. J. Murdoch is installed in the rooms Mr T. M. Wilford occupied, and the Hon. S. G. Smith has the suite recently used by Mr Veitch. Mr Murdoch’s first official public act will be to open the Masterton Show on Monday next.