NEW PRIME MINISTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 985, 30 May 1930, Page 1

NEW PRIME MINISTER

MR. FORBES INSTALLED IN HIS DEPARTMENT

MINISTERS’ SECRETARIES Special to THE BUN WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Hon. G. W. Forbes is now installed in the Prime Minister’s department, and the Ministers are in occu pation of their offices. Changes of suites were necessary only in the cases of the Hon. E. A. Ransom, who is now in the quarters recently occupied by Mr. Forbes, the Hon. W. B. Taverner and the Hon. W. A. Yeitch. Mr, Taverner is in Mr. Ransom’s old suite, at one time the meeting place of the Massey Ministry and the National Cabinet, and Mr, Veitch has the quarters that Mr. Taverner vacated. The Hon. A. ,T. Murdoch, Minister of Agriculture, is installed in the rooms formerly occupied by Mr. T. M. Wilford, and the Hon. S. GSmith, Minister of Labour, has the suite recently used by Mr. Veitch. Mr. Murdoch’s first official public act will be to open the Masterton Show on Monday. COMPLETION OF PROGRAMME The completion of the Government's legislative programme will occupy a good deal of the Cabinet’s time in the next four weeks. Mr. Forbes said he expected that the preparation of Bills would be welt forward by the time Parliament met. Instructions had already been issued to the departments to have their annual reports ready for presentation early in the session.

The Ministers and tlieir staffs have not yet settled down to the rearrangement of accommodation entailed .by the shuffle of portfolios, but the adjustment should take only a few daj’s. A slight redistribution of private secretaries was agreed to by Cabinet last, night, secretaries being allotted as follow: Hon. G. W. Forbes, Messrs. C. A. Jeffery and J. A. Mitchell; Hon. E. A. Ransom, Mr. A. W. Mulligan; Hon. W. A. Veitch, Mr. T. R. Aickiu: Hon. W. B. Taverner, Messrs. N. J. Hutchings and W. J. Shanly; Hon. J. B. Donald, Mr. W. R. King; Hon. A. J. Stailworthy, Mr. J. T. Waugh; Hon. P. A. de la Perreile, Messrs. E. N. G. Poulton and A. J. Conway; Hon. Sir Apirana Ngata, Mr. H. R. H. Balneavis; Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Mr. F. G. Matthews; Hon. Sir Thomas Sidey, Mr. S. Y. Jones; Hon. S. G. Smith, Mr. F. M. Sherwood; Hon. A. J. Murdoch, Mr. G. F. Dixon; Hon. H. Atmore, Mr. W. I. Deavoll.