NEW CANADIAN GOVERNMENT.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20002, 9 August 1930, Page 15

NEW CANADIAN GOVERNMENT.

PERSONNEL of ministry. CAMPAIGN TACTICS INVESTIGATED. 'SUED I'ttESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) u T , OTTAWA, August 7. J - Mackenzie King's Ministry reined to-day and MV R. B. Bennett's Administration was sworn in. The 01 ? s ! Cabinet was announced as tolbws:—Premier, Mr Bennett, who is also President of the Council, Secretary of State, and .Minister for Finance. The latter* portfolio goes to an appoinfee after the special session ot ai (lament. Other members of the cabinet are: —Sir George Perley (without portfolio), the Hon. E. N. Rhodes fisheries), Senator the Hon. Gideon Robertson (Labour), the Hon. Hugh vjuthi'i6 (Justice and Attorney-Gen-eral) , the Hou H. 11. Stevens (Trade and Commerce), the Hon. R. J. Manion (ltailways' and Canals), the Hou. tl' R y cl£n ian (National Revenue), !r ,? n * J. A. Macdonald (without portfolio), the Hon. Arthur Saitve U ostmaster-General), Colonel the Hon. Murray Alaclaren (Pensions and National Health), the Hon H. A. Stewart (Public Works), the Hon. C. H>. Calian (Secretary of State), the Hon. D. M. Sutherland (National Defence), the Hon. Alfred Durlaneau (Marine), the Hon. J, G Murphy (Interior), the. Hon. Maurice Dupre (Solicitor-Gen-eral). the Hon. W S Gordon (Immigration, Colonisation, and Mines), and the Hon. Robert Weir (Agriculture). As a result of an investigation by Liberal organisers at Vancouver it is reported that New Zealand butter importations were used in the farming sections to influence voting in favour of the victorious Conservatives. The reports alleged that the Conservative election organisers, in conjunction with. Conservative wholesalers, imported large supplies of New Zealand butter, dumping them in the agricultural sections at greatly reduced prices just before the election, the losses being made up from the campaign funds.