EAGER TO WORK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 288, 5 December 1935, Page 8

EAGER TO WORK.

ELEVEN MINISTERS.

LEADER'S ENERGETIC TEAM. HIGH PRAISE FOR MR. SEMPLE (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Eagerness to get to work is shown by the eleven members of the Labour party selected for Ministerial rank. Mr. Savage believes he has the most energetic team of colleagues ever chosen to support a Prime Minister in New Zealand. Every member of his chosen Ministry has been accustomed to work hard, particularly in the days before they entered Parliament. Mr. Savage believes this will be of benefit to New Zealand. He is particularly hopeful of Mr. Seinple, in whom he has sliown much conlidence In entrusting him with the important portfolio of Public Works. It will be the Labour Government's policy to reopen several major undertakings and to reverse the Coalition Government's policy of tapering off public works.

Mr. Savage spoke to-day in terms of the highest praise when referring to Mr. Semple. "You will find that tliLs energetic, hard-working and forceful man will be a real leader to the workers of New Zealand," he 6aid. "There is no nonsense about Bob Semple. If those who have been unemployed want a leader and someone tp whom they can look for an example, they have that man in Bob Semple.

"I realise that we shall not go very far toward success if the Minister of Public Works falls down on his job, but I have no fears on that score. A worker himself, the new Minister will expect everyone else to work. He is not a man to suffer gladly those indisposed to work. Moreover, he will see that the best possible conditions are provided, and there will be no excuse for anyone to slack on a job. In undertaking a programme of public works, we feel that when the money has been earned and the works finished, New Zealand will have substantial assets."

HIGH COMMISSIONER.

KNOWS NOTHING OF STORY. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, December 4. The High Commissioner, Sir James Parr, commenting on the report that Mr. W. J. Jordan was succeeding liim, said: "I know nothing about it. At the request of Mr. Forbes and the late Government, in August I consented to an extension of my term until January 1, 1937. It has been so extended."

RELIEF OF DISTRESS.

CHURCHMEN'S HOPES. At the meeting of the executive of the Council of Christian Congregations held in St. David's Church it was unanimously resolved: "That the executive desires to congratulate Mr. M. J. Savage on the victory which he and his party achieved in the recent election. It expresses the earnest hope that the new Government may handle the affairs of the Dominion so wisely and justly that the highest interests of all sections of the community may be promoted. It desires especially that it may be during its term of office to relieve greatly the poverty and unemployment which have distressed so many of our people during the last few years."