NEW PRIME MINISTER

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 10

NEW PRIME MINISTER

CLAIM FOR MR. FORBES

"THE NATURAL SUCCESSION"

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day.

The "Evening Star" says the probabilities . seem to be that the Hon. G. ,W. Forbes will be chosen to fill Sir Joseph Ward's place. 'That wil be the natural succession,'.' says the: "Star." "Mr. Forbes has been twenty-two years in Parliament. ■He was the Iprevioiis leafier of the National Party. He was Leader of the House when Sir Joseph took ill, and won credit from all parties for the way jin which he fulfilled that position under_ particularly ' trying circumstances. He has an unsurpassed knowledge of land settlement, which is the prime need of the country. The only doubt about his fitness to succeed has been caused by the suspicion that he is not even now &' politician in brain, that his heart tends too easily to be divided between politics, with the kicks that it brings, and Cincinnatus's farm; but that misgiving may be an unfounded one, or the. duality may be cured by sufficient -pressure of responsibility. No MiTiisier has worked harder than Mr. Forbes. If Mr. Ransom; with far less political experience, but with his own, energy and capacity, should give place now to Mr. Forbes, his time would come later, anL a high place mWet.be assured to him in any United Cabinet."