RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 13 February 1926, Page 9

RE-ELECTION OF MINISTERS.

ABOLITION PROPOSED. A BRITISH BILL. •"\BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Feb. 13, 12.10 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 12. In the House of Commons, the Reelection of Ministers’ Bill was moved by Dr G. C. Clayton. The Bill dispenses 'with the necessity for Cabinet members to seek re-election. The mover urged that the Bill would enable the Prime Minister to select the best men without consideration of what was his majority at the last election. Major Hugh O’Neill, in seconding the motion, recalled the late Mr Bonar Law’s similar Bill in 1919, which limited its application to nine months after the elections. It was interesting to recall that nearly all the advocates Lor a limit had since gained Ministerial rank, including'Sir Samuel Hoare, Rt. Hon. Earl Winterton, Sir P. Cunlilfe Lister and the Hon, W. Guinness. Mr F. Dunnico (Labour) moved and Sir John Marriott (Conservative) seconded the rejection of the Bill. Th.e Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon: Stanley Baldwin) said he would vote for, the Bill because its advantages outweighed its disadvantages, but the matter was left to the free vote of the House. Mr Baldwin said that admirably qualified .men had been passed over because of the fear of losing a by-election. , The Labourites strongly opposed tne Hill, which, passed its second reading by 143 votes to 37. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.