CABINET MINISTERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 9 February 1944, Page 4

CABINET MINISTERS

ALL CONFIRMED IN OFFICE DECISION OF LABOUR CAUCUS Wellington, This Day. T!.e whole question of the personnel of Cabinet was discussed by the caucus of the Parliamentary Labour Party at its meeting in Wellington yesterday afternoon. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser, was unanimously reelected Leader of the Party at the caucus held in October following the Gen eral Election, and at yesterday’s caucus all other Ministers were confirmed in office on a vole being taken. The caucus was the second held by the Party since the General Election, and the first the Prime Minister had attended since that date, Mr. Fraser being away ill at the time of the October caucus. It began yesterday morning and again last night. Most of 'the morning session was occupied with an address by the Prime Minister, who reviewed the work of the Government and the projects in the party’s election programme and dealt with steps to be ‘taken for their implementation. An account of his visit to Australia with the Minister of Defence, Mr Jonfes, and the Minister of Labour, Mr Webb, for the purpose of attending Ihe conference at which the Australian-New Zealand agreement was made, was also given by Mr Fraser. At the evening session the report in connection with the Australian-New Zealand Agreement was unanimously adopted, and the agreement approved. The caucus will continue to-day.—P.A.