IN OFFICE AGAIN.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 27 September 1926, Page 5

IN OFFICE AGAIN.

MR MACKENZIE KING. • CANADA’S NEW CABINET. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. OTTAWA, Sept. 25. The Meighen Government resigned to-day, and Mr Mackenzie King was immediately summoned to Government House. Mr Meighen announced that he does not intend to contest a. seat in Parliament and that he will retire from the learership of the Conservative Party at a conference of its members to be held on October 11. LateT in the day Mr Mackenzie King was sworn in as Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs. There are no outstanding changes from the personnel of Ms -previous Cabinet. Mr Robb resumes the portfolio of Finance, and the Customs Department, which the Conservatives strenuously attacked dur ing the election campaign for alleged maladministration, will be presided over by Mr W. D. Euler. Mr Meighen has- announced that every facility will be afforded to theCanadian representatives to attend the Imperial Conference, and if Parliament is re-assembled) assistance will be given by the Opposition for the prompt dispatch of business. Mr King officially 'stated to-day that he would attend the Imperial Conference, accompanied by Mr Laponte, the Minister of Justice, and possibly by other Ministers. Parliament is likely to meet the first week in December. Mr Forlce, the former Leader of the Progressives, assumes the portfolio- of Immigration and Colonisation. He was elected as a joint Liberal and Progressive candidate. . Mr Vincent Massey, a former president of the Massey-Harris Company was chosen as Canada’s first Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington, but the Prime Minister announced to-day that the definite appointment will be beld in abeyance until ho has had an opportunity to discuss the matter with the Imperial Government when attending the Imperial Conference. VANCOUVER, Sept. 25. Mr J. S. McDonald, chairman of the British Columbia division of the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, in a long newspaper article, appeals to the Canadians to stop quibbling over the Canadian-Australian treaty, to sink political differences and instead to press the Imperial Conference no longer to delay the full measure of preference between the Motherland and the Dominions.