POLITICS IN TASMANIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18953, 29 August 1923, Page 2

POLITICS IN TASMANIA.

THE NEW . MINISTRY. (From Oue Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, August 23. The Tasmanian Ministry, led by Mr J. B. Hayes, has resigned after 12 months of office, events during the past few weeks having made it impossible for Mr Hayes and his colleagues to meet the House. Grave dissatisfaction had been expressed by their supporters with the financial situation and the administration of the railways, and party meetings, which Ministers were not invited lo attend, were understood to have condemned the “mismanagement” of State affairs and counselled a change of Government. At the subsequent formal meeting of the Nationalist and Country Parties, numbering 12 and five respectively, the Premier did not wait lo be dismissed, but made way for Mr Newton, of Launceston. Followingthat gentleman’s failure to secure assurances of support, the Treasurer (Sir G. Walter Lee) formed a Ministry. Apparently in this instance the Nationalist and Country members have not repeated an experiment which resulted disastrously in connection with the Hayes Government —the selection of Ministers by the party. The ex-Premicr may fairly complain that he was not given a chance to make his administration a. success, since he was not permitted to choose (he men whom he deemed best .suited to control the various departments. The Coalition nominated ib» Ministers, and the leader had to make (he best of a humiliating and unsatisfactory position.