CABINET TO MEET DAILY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 984, 29 May 1930, Page 1

CABINET TO MEET DAILY

GOVERNMENT’S PROGRAMME MORE WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED FINANCIAL POSITION OF COUNTRY Press Association 4 WELLINGTON, Tefday. I ajre getting down to work straight away, and fr< jn now Yi onward Cabinet meetings will be held almost daily until June 26, to finalise the Government’s legislative programme,” said the Prime Minister, the Hon. G. AV. Forbes, in an interview following a meeting of the Cabinet last night.

Mr. Forbes repeated his earlier statement that Ministers' would have to forgo visits outside Wellington, and youlti be obliged to decline invitations to functions, in the interests of the legislation which the Government would submit to the House.

"We expect to have our programme veil forward,” Mr. Forbes added. ‘‘lnstructions have been issued already to the departments to have their reports ready for presentation early in the session

The reappointment of the Cabinet Unemployed Committee was announced by the Prime Minister last night. The chairman will be the Minister of Lands, the Hon. E. A. hansom, and the other members will bo the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. W. B. Taverner, and the Minister o£ Labour, the Hon. S. G. Smith. The Prime Minister added that, a good deal of preliminary work had been done concerning public works and planting operations, and it was

expected that quite a number of additional men would be absorbed in the near future.

More than 70 heads of departments and departmental officers met the new Prime Minister and his colleagues at an informal gathering at Parliament House yesterday afternoon. Mr. Forbes stated subsequently that the object of the gathering was to enable the Ministers to meet the administrative officers. It is understood that the Prime Minister took advantage ol! the opportunity to place the financial position of the country before the officials, and that he was assured of the hearty co-operation of the public service in the policy which the Government intended to pursue in that regard. An extraordinary Gazette was issued last evening announcing the resignation of the Ward Cabinet and the appointment of the new Executive Council and Ministry.