MINISTERIAL ACTIVITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22193, 21 August 1935, Page 13

MINISTERIAL ACTIVITY

LEADERS IN HARNESS CIVIC RECEPTION TO-NIGHT PREPARATIONS FOR SESSION [by telegraph—special reporter! WELLINGTON, Tuesday Although the Prime Minister, Mr. Forbes, and the Minister of Finance, Mr. Coates, were both in attendance at Parliament Buildings to-day picking up the threads of their Ministerial duties neither had any further statements to make, either 011 the results of their missions overseas or local political affairs. They will be given a civic reception in the Wellington Town Hall to-morrow night, and it is expected that both will make public statements elaborating the interviews already given. All the Ministers at present in Wellington have been exceptionally busy for the last few days. In addition to the return of Mr. Forbes and Mr. Coates there has been the arrival of the Japanese delegation with several attendant functions of an official nature. The Japanese delegation left for Auckland to-night, accompanied by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Sir Alexander Young.

A meeting of Cabinet will possibly be held to-morrow, but thereafter until the opening of the session next week several Ministers will be absent from Wellington. Mr. Coates will probably pass through Auckland toward the end of the week on his way to visit his home, while the Prime Minister will leave for the South Island on Saturday evening. Mr. Forbes will deliver a presessional address at Kangiora next Monday night, and will probably return to Wellington next Wednesday, on the eve of the opening of Parliament. Other Ministers are also prosecuting the campaign of pre-sessional addresses. The Minister of Lands, Sir Alfred Ransom, spoke at Marton to-night. The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. C. E. Maemillan, will address a meeting at Eketahuna on Thursday, and the Minister of Defence, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, will deliver a speech at on Friday.

The leader of the Legislative Council, the Hon. R. Masters, announced today that the Address-in-Reply debate would be moved in the Council next week by the Hon. J. McLeod, of New Plymouth, and seconded by the Hon. H. A. Russell, of Hastings. The Prime Minister said it had not yet been decided who would be the mover and seconder in the House of Representatives.