NEW LABOUR MINISTRY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 642, 20 October 1909, Page 7

NEW LABOUR MINISTRY.

> ''■■": '■ , '^IN;.TASMAN,IA^^;;,\'.'-;-.: t ! IB?'.l'!llFer«h:PrMsl'-: , Af»po|ai|i!i)'-c'opyr|BM.i ' | ' . (lice. October 21), 1 u.m.); .■'■'' '■ ''. . . •■'. ,'■'■•'■"■' Hpbart,,'October 15..' !j *}"*• J, TATk, l&ifltr of llie.J/aboiir,party.ip t n » T|ismnuißn AjiSenipJy,. wbp: for j, pn the t\\pr retiring PrctriW--(Sir. r p.'N. Lewis), has ,suc.cccrti^'in''forming a Lat) bour Sfiiiistry.:......, -, -;■;■;:;: ; ;; ;., - y '; LABfjUn PARTY'S _ !NtEnJT,|OrJS, Labour lias not a majority of, tlie T<\sn)anlau : Assembly—haviqg. ithont 12. vriteS; iii' -3D-but tho non-Labour sections arc not solid. Questioned after the recent plectipn«thp,Loader of • . tho Labour party, (Mr. J. Karlc) was reticent ps to the intention pf,)|is pnrty. He said:— ''I.cannot make a definite statement in that b connection at,- this jupctitfe, l|cyppd that wo will adhere strictly to our policy.- If a dissohition is thereby rendered,iiiovitnble, then there will bo ho nltornativo but to have'it, unless, . pf course, some other party is prepared to a- carry out our:policy. 'In that daso-tho position ~ would be dlSfernlit; AH I can: soy in t hj s ; regard is that the ultimate situation will deT , pond-a-'good deal upon circupistauces." "•'.:» i. : Atdceil .'fqr his opinion on'tho-method -iW i. vptiiig adopted,'he sa|d :-"l think the adoption of the Haro system as applied to this ojocUon lf has beep more than justified. It has'been i. particularly fair to tho Labour partj\ We'have ■ e returned twelve members, whereas had'tho ild j- system beou applied to the grouped electorates, I pven though the'polling was* tho ; same,' wo -'. would have secprcil a roturn of oplysix candiv dntes. That, is to say, wo would hnvp. got Hie whole, of the rppresentation 'for' Darwin, • and nono elscwherp'.",- ~ :■ .-:•:.:,/.■■;;::'■: ■'■■:■ "■".: