FEDERAL COALITION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 November 1934, Page 7

FEDERAL COALITION.

NEW CABINET NAMED,

FOUR COUNTRY PARTY MEMBERS

MELBOURNE, Nov. 7. The Prime Minister (Mr J. A. Lyons) lias announced tlie Federal Coalition Cabinet as follows: Prime Minister and Treasurer, Mr J. A. Lyons. Alinister of Commerce, Dr Earle Page (Leader of the Country Party). Minister of External Affairs and Territories, Senator Sir George Pearce. Attorney-General and Minister of Industry, Mr R. G. Menzies. Minister of Defence, Mr R. A. Parkhill.

Minister of tlie Interior, Mr T. Paterson (Deputy-Leader of tlie Country Party). Minister of Trade and Customs, Mr T. W. White. Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister of Health and Minister of Repatriation, Mr IV. M. Hughes. Postmaster-General and Minister in Control of Development, Senator A. J. McLachlan.

Minister without portfolio, directing trade treaties. Sir Henry Gullett. Assistant Treasurer, Mr R. Casey. Assistant Minister of Commerce and Industry, without portfolio, Senator T. C. Brennan. Assistant Minister of War Service Homes and Repatriation, without portfolio, Mr H. Tliorby (Country Party). Assistant Postmaster-General in the House of Representatives, Mr J. A. J. Hunter (Country Party). The Prime Minister said that Mr F. H. Stewart, former Minister of Commerce, had declined a position in the Ministry, but had offered to associate himself with the Government’s employment policy, which the Government had gratefully accepted. Dr Page is Deputy-Leader of the Government.

NEW ZEALAND’S INTEREST

THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE.

(By Telegraph. —Special to Standard.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 8. The rearrangement of the Australian Federal Ministry shows that, although the New Zealand Ministers were concerned about a prolonged session delaying their proposed consultations with the Commonwealth over a reciprocal trade agreement, no time lias really been lost, as Mr F. H. Stewart, the original Minister of Commerce and Industry, who had conducted the negotiations with New Zealand, is not a member of the new Cabinet. His place lias been taken by Dr. Earle Page, Leader of the Country Party, a change not to the advantage of New Zealand producers, who desire the free admission of potatoes, onions, and similar products into Australia.