MR HOLYOAKE PRAISED
Prime Minister’s Tribute (New Zeaiana Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 30. The Prime Minister (Mr Holland) said in the House of Representatives during the Budget debate tonight that the administration of the Minister of Agriculture (Mr K. J. Holyoake) had been a conspicuous success. Mr F. .Hackett (Opposition, Grey Lynn): A lot of people say he should be the Prime Minister. “Maybe he should be,” said Mr Holland. “That is something the honourable gentleman never will be.”
Mr Holland had praised Mr Holyoake for the way in which he had set about increasing farm production to increase New Zealand’s overseas earnings when the Government first came to power. “How many Ministers of Agriculture do you usually have m seven and a half years?” asked the Prime Minister. “We have had only one.”
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28343, 31 July 1957, Page 12
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