CABINET MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 12

CABINET MEETING

MINISTERS AT ROTORUA

1 EXTENSION TILL.TO-MORROW.

All members of Cabinet except the 'Attorney-General (Sir Thomas Sidey), who has been detained in the South Island, are-to-day assembled at Botorua, in obedience to the call from the Prime Minister (the Eight Hon. Sir. Joseph Ward), who is still under niedical treatment at the sanatorium. ■ A party of six Ministers, accompanied by the head of the Prime Minister s Department (Mr. F. D. Thomson) and Mr. Vincent Ward1, of the secretarial staff, left by the Limited express last night and made the journey from Frankton to Botorua this morning by special train, arriving, according to a Press Association telegram, at 10.30. Other Ministers arrived from northern districts. On arrival at Ttotorua the party proceeded to the Prime Minister's quarters at Prince's Gate Hotel. The. Press Association message- states that a preliminary meeting of Cabinet was hold, this morning,, and that it appeared when the luncheon adjournment was taken that owing to the volume of business the sitting would have to be extended until to-morrow. Cabinet resumed at 2.30 p.m. Ministers anticipated when they left for Botorua that the business of tne meeting would be concluded to-day, and accordingly arrangements had been made for their return to Wellington tonight, arriving to-morrow morning.