WAR ADMINISTRATION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1942, Page 3

WAR ADMINISTRATION

NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN Mr Sullivan Made Deputy-Premier FOUR NEW NATIONAL PARTY REPRESENTATIVES LABOUR CABINET TO CONTINUE TO FUNCTION (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ■WELLINGTON, This Day. The personnel of the new War Administration of 13 Ministers —seven Government Ministers and six Opposition Minis* ters —was announced last night by the Prime- Minister, Mr Fraser. The list is as follows:— Right Hon P. Fraser, Prime Minister, Chairman of War Cabinet. Hon. S. G. Holland, Minister in Charge of War Expenditure, Deputy-i Chairman of War Cabinet. Hon. F. Jones, Minister of Defence. Right Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister of Armed Forces and War Co-ordination. Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Supply and Munitions. Hon. A, Hamilton, Associate Minister of Supply and Munitions. Hon. R. Semple, Minister of Transport. Hon. W. J. Polson, Minister of Primary Production for War Purposes. Hon. P. K. Paikea, Minister in Charge of Maori. War Effort. Hon. W. J. Broadfoot, Minister of National Service. Hon. A. McLagen, Minister of Industrial Manpower. Hon. W. A. Bodkin, Minister of Civil Defence. Hon. A. H. Nordmeyer, Minister of Health. Mr Sullivan will be Deputy-Prime Minister. I! at any time Mr Fraser should have occasion to be elsewhere than in the Dominion, then Mr Sullivan will act in his place during the Prime Minister’s absence from New Zealand. The War Administration of 13 members will be charged with responsibility for all matters connected with the war or with New Zealand’s Avar effort. The War Cabinet will act as the executive body of the War Administration, and will be responsible for making all decisions in relation to war matters except those that, are dealt with by the War Administration as a whole. The Government Cabinet will continue to function in respect of all matters of policy and administration not connected with the war. The new Ministers were sworn-in by the Governor-General at Government House yesterday afternoon.