N.Z. LABOUR CABINET

Grey River Argus, 31 July 1935, Page 5

N.Z. LABOUR CABINET

ALL MEMBERS TO HELP Far Reaching Reform MAY FOLLOW NEXT ELECTIONS. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, July 30. An address was delivered to a fair audience at Gisborne to-night by tiie Leader of the Opposition, Mr. M. J. Savage. Mr. Savage stated that, if given a majority in the next Parliament, Labour would introduce new methods, by which the rank and file members of the Government supporters would be permitted ,to serve. The intention, be said, was to co-opt the services of all of the members who were elected to Parliament under the banner of Labour. This would be done with the object of making the representatives of the people something more than mere voting machines. All of the Government members would be expected to play their part in the promotion of legislation and in the administration of the law, for the purpose of transforming the Dominion into the comparative paradise that its productive forces justified. Every Labour Member who was willing to give a full measure of service. Mr. Savage stated, would bp associated with the .Minister in the particular department wherein the member was best fitted to serve. While the Ministerial authority would be maintained to the full, steps would be taken to establish groups of the people’s representatives in Parliament, as against the growing number of Royal Commissions, the members of which acted without the authority of the peop e. The farmer members of the Government supporters would be associated with the Minister of Lands and Agriculture. The miners would be associated with the Minister of Mines; and so on. until all of the Department were C °Mr. Savage expressed the opinion that, with the assistance of the people, far reaching changes could —and would —be made during the life oi the first Labour Government. A vote of thanks to Mr. Snx ag■. and of confidence in lhe Labour Partx was curried.