LABOR’S CABINET

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12751, 6 January 1936, Page 2

LABOR’S CABINET

MINISTERS LEAVE. EOR .WELLINGTON

MR SAVAGE VISITS ORAKEI

HISTORIC GIFTS FROM NATIVES

(Press Association > AUCKLAND, Jan. 4

To attend meetings of Cabinet, which will re-pommence on Wednesday, .the Premier, Mr Savage, and several Ministers of 1 the Crown left for Wellington by the Limited express to-night. Mo Savage was accompanied by Air and Mrs French, with whom he lived in TTenie Ray for many years, and by his chief private secretary, Mr C. A- Jeffery. Other Ministers who loft- were Mr Semple, Minister of Public Works, wlro has been on a brief visit to Auckland; the Attorney-General, Mr Mason; and the Lender of the Legislative Council, the lion. M. Eagan, who has been on holiday in the city. Mr >l. A. 'Lee, Parliamentary Undersecretary, will leave for Wellington to-morrow.

Air Savage and his colleagues were all kept busy during the week-end with official business. Mr Semple also made a. brief trip through the Auckland suburbs electorate, Mr Mason’s eonstituonev.

As the “captain of the great canoe known as the. Labor party” the Prime Minister received a traditional Alaori welcome when he visited the village of Orakei this afternoon. It wins the first time.' that Air Savage had visited the Alaoris- in his capacity o 1 Afini.stcr of Native Affairs. Representatives of the tribes in the North and South Islands and other Maori organisations were associated in the welcome to him.

Mr Savage received from the Orakei Alaoris and representatives of the tribes as far south as Taranaki an inkstand and pen on a- native carved base, while Ilia. Him, paramount- chief of the Tamaki district, handed to him a Eible brought to New Zealand by Samuel Alarsdon, and a copy of the Treaty of Wait'n.ngi bound in book form.

“1 promise you that the letter and the spirit of the Treaty of Wajtangi will be kept by the first. Labor Government that has had the privilege of honoring its contracts with the Native race”, said Mr Savage in tq. ply.