Caygill ranks No. 4
By
OLIVER RIDDELL
The new Minister of Finance, Mr Caygill, has also been given the revenue portfolio after the resignation of the former Minister, Mr de Cleene, in sympathy with Mr Douglas’ sacking. Mr de Cleene’s other portfolio of customs has been returned to the Minister of Women’s and Consumer Affairs, Mrs Shields, who held it between 1984 and 1987. The Prime Minister, Mr Lange, also announced that he had appointed Mr Caygill to the rank of No. 4 in the Cabinet as part of the reshuffle after Mr Douglas’s sacking. Previously Mr Caygill had been ranked at No. 8 since 1984. But on the issue of when Mr Caygill would lose his health portfolio, Mr Lange said only that a decision would be announced early in the New Year. Both Mr Caygill and Mr Lange have already said that health was too big a portfolio to combine with finance.
What Mr Lange announces will depend on whether he decides to stay with 18 Cabinet Ministers or
appoint a nineteenth. If he stays with 18, then the health portfolio would probably go to the Minister of Housing and Conservation, Ms Clark, who would hand her conservation portfolio to the Minister of Police, Mr Tapsell.
As Minister of Internal Affairs
between 1984 and 1987, Mr Tapsell was reponsible for and took a keen interest in the old Wildlife Service, which became an important part of the new Conservation Department. - If Mr Lange wants another Cabinet Minister then it will be up to the Labour caucus to elect one.
The three candidates are the Associate Minister of Finance, Mr Peter Neilson, the Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ms Fran Wilde, and the Associate Minister of Justice and the Environment, Mr Philip Woolaston. Mr Woolaston seems to command the most support in the caucus and would be a logical candidate to take the conservation, and perhaps housing, portfolio from Ms Clark. There is also the question of who will take Mr Caygill’s place at No. 8 on the front bench. The main candidates are the Minister of Local Government, Dr Bassett, or the Minister of Employment, Mr Goff.
It is possible this seat will be left vacant until after the health portfolio has been allocated.
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