CABINET DUTIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1938, Page 6

CABINET DUTIES

REARRANGEMENTS MADE

MR NASH TO ADMINISTER SOCIAL SECURITY.

LABOUR TAKEN OVER BY MR WEBB. (By Telegfraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A rearrangement of Cabinet portfolios was announced yesterday by the Prime Minister, Mr Savage. The Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, has been appointed Minister of Social Security, but he is to be relieved of three of the portfolios he now holds. The portfolio of Labour, which is held by Mr Armstrong, is to be taken over by the Minister of Mines, Mr Webb.

Mr Armstrong will become Minister !n Charge of Housing and State Advances, positions previously held by Mr Nash. The Attorney-General, Mr Mason, will relieve Mr Nash of ihe administration of the Public Trust Office. Mr Lee will continue as Parliamentary Under-Secretary in Charge of Housing.

The departments and portfolios that will now be controlled by these four Ministers are:-r-

Mr Nash. —Finance, Customs, Marketing, Social. Security, Stamp Duties, Land and Income Tax, Public Service Superannuation, Government Life Insurance, State Fire Insurance, and Census and Statistics.

Mr Armstrong.—Housing and State Advances, Immigration.

Mr Mason.—Attorney-General, Justice, Prisons and Registrar-General's Department, Public Trust Office, and Patents, Designs, Trademarks, and Copvright Office. Mr Webb.—Labour, Mines, and Printing and Stationery Department.