KING AND EMPIRE
Constitutional Crisis Unchanged GOVERNMENT AWAITS NEWS Cabinet held another long meeting yesterday, but the constitutional crisis at Home’as affecting King Edward was only mentioned, not discussed. The day was given to normal administrative business. After Cabinet rose late in the afternoon the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, said that the latest message from the British Government could be described best and almost literally by saying that there was nothing, further to report or to say about the situation. Meanwhile the members of Cabinet would not. l>e called upon to sit and wait for developments. “If the position changes,” added Mr. Savage, “Cabinet, of course, will meet at once;, but that does not seem likely at the moment.” OPPOSITION LEADER Request From Prime Minister to Come to Wellington By Telegraph—Press Association. Invet’cargill, December 8. The Leader of the Opposition, Hon. Adam Hamilton, will leave for Wellington by the express to-morrow morning He has received a request from the Prime Minister that he should go to Wellington, since the need for his presence there might arise.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 64, 9 December 1936, Page 10
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