A GENERAL POST.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1926, Page 5

A GENERAL POST.

MOVING TIME IN PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS. (Bv Telegraph.—Special to The Star.) WELLINGTON, May 24. A general game of musical is going on in Parliament Buildings. Not onlv are there inevitable movings of offices due to Mr. Wright’s appointment and various transfers of departments from one , Minister to another, hut the Prime> Minister has decided to forsake the old Cabinet room in the wooden buildings so long associated with the Reform Party’s administration. Having charge of three big departments —Railways, Public Works and Native Affairs—the Prime Minister needs extensive office room, especially as the new Prime Minister’s department has also to be added. The Cabinet room suite on the first floor of the new. Parliament Buildings is regarded as a “white elephant.” It is on the' sunless side of the buildings and has far too little supplementary office room for a busy Minister. Mr. Massey would not use it, nor will the present head of the Government, who has decided to ask the Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister of Lands, to move from his spacious offices on the ground floor front of the buildings to a suite on the Sydney Street frontage originally intendedj for the Minister .of Railways, hut never occupied. Mr. Coates will also take the former suite of Sir James Parr, thus giving ample room for his staff and paving the way for the early establishment of the Prime Minister’s special department, a plan which lias been held up through accommodation difficulties. The. Government is gradually moving its activities from the old Government House, a sign that the completion of the new Parliament Buildings, by the addition of the south wing, is soon to be put in hand.