THE NEW CABINET.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19941, 30 May 1930, Page 14

THE NEW CABINET.

LEGISLATION BEING PREPARED.

[THE P&BSa Special Service.]

WELLINGTON, May 29

The new Cabinet is losing no time in getting down to work. In aceordance with his intimation immediately after being elected Leader of the United Party that Cabinet would sit fairly continuously from now on until Parliament opens at the end of next month, the Prime Minister (the Hon. G. W. Forbes) summoned a meeting of his Ministry last night and again this morning. A large part of the business is understood to have i-onsisted of public works and other departmental authorisations and routine work. Cabinet is sitting again this afternoon. The framing of the Government's legislative programme will occupy a good deal of the time of Cabinet in the next four weeks, and the statement was made by Mr Forbes last night that he expects the preparation Of Bills will be well forward by the time Parliament meets. Instructions have already been issued to Departments to have their annual reports roady for presentation early in the soßsion.

Ministers and 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 days. A slight redistribution of private secretaries was agreed to by Cabinet la»t night, secretaries being allotted as follow*:—Hon. G. W. Forbes, Messrs 0. A. Jeffery and J. A. Mitchell; Hon. E. A. Hansom, Mr A. W. Mulligan; Hon. W. A. Veiteh, Mr T. K. Aiekinj Hen, W. B. Taverner, Messrs N; J. Hutchings and W. J. Shanly; Hon. J. B. Donald, Mr W. B. King; Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, Mr J. T. Waugh; Hon. P. A. de la Porrelle, Messrs E. N. 6. Poulton and A. J. Conway j Hon. Sir Apirana Ngata, Mr H. B, H. Balneavis; Hon. J. G. Cobbe, Mr. P. G. Matthews; Hon. Sir Thomaß Sidoy, 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. _ The reappointment of the Cabinet Unemployment Committee was announced by the Prime Minister last evening. Tho chairman will be the Minister for Lands (the Hon. E. A. Bansom), and the other members are the Minister for Public Works (the Hon. W. B. Taverner), and the Minister for Labour (the Hon. S. G. Smith). The Prime Minister added that & good deal of preliminary work had been dene concerning public works and planting operations, and it was expected that quite a number of additional men would be absorbed in. the near future.