GETTING BUSY
LABOUR GOVERNMENT SETS TO WORK
IMMEDIATE IMPROVEMENTS TO BE EFFECTED
CABINET PEERS EXPLAIN THEIR POSITION
ADDITIONAL MINISTERS APPOINTED
At the first meeting of the Labour Cabinet decisions were come to on questions of unemployment, housing, and agriculture. Immediate improvements are contemplated, and details of policy are to be worked out. Viscount Chelmsford and Lord Parmoor- in accepting Cabinet rank> it is stated, did so to enable Parliament to carry on. Neither is regarded as a convert to the Labour movement. Mr Ramsay Macdonald states that his Department (Foreign Affairs) shall com mence work at an earlier hour every day. No man is to be spared in such a time of crisis as the present. Further Cabinet appointments are announced. Miss Margaret Bondfield becomes the first woman Under-Sec-retary in,British history.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11737, 26 January 1924, Page 5
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131GETTING BUSY New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11737, 26 January 1924, Page 5
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