POLITICS IN TASMANIA.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17854, 29 August 1923, Page 13

POLITICS IN TASMANIA.

THE NEW MINISTRY £ (MOW CWB OWJf COBBZSPOHDKST.) SYI>NEY, August 23. The Tasmanian Ministry, led by Mr J. B. Hayes, has resigned after 12 months of events during the past few weeks having made it impossible for Mr Hayes and his colleagues to meet the House. Grave dissatisfaction had been expressed by their supporters with the financial situation and the administration of the railways; and party meetings, which Ministers were not invited to attend, were understood to have condemned the ' •'mismanagement'' of State affairs and counselled a change of Government. At the subsequent formal meeting of the Nationaust and Country Parties, numbering 12 and 5 respectively, the Premier did not wait to be dismissed, but made way for Mr Newton, of Launceston. following that gentleman's failure to secure assurances of support, the Treasurer (Sir J. Walter Lee) formed a Ministry. Apparently in this instance the Nationalist and Country members have not repeated an experiment which resulted disastrously in connexion with the Hayes Government —the selection, of. Ministers by tbe party. The ex-Premier may fairly complain that he was not given a chance to make his administration a success, since he was not permitted to choose the men whom he deemed best suited to control the various departments. The Coalition nominated' the Ministers, and the leader had to make the best of a humiliating &*& uosatisi aetata, .position* I