CANADIAN POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19905, 27 September 1926, Page 9

CANADIAN POLITICS

ME, KING TAKES OFFICE. TO ATTEND IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. CABINET GENERALLY UNCHANGED. (Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.) OTTAWA, September 25. (Received Sept. 26, at 5.5 p.m.) The Meigban Government resigned today, and Mr Mackenzie King was immediately summoned to Got eminent House. Mr Meigben announced that be does not intend to contest a scat in Parliament, and that he will retire from the leadership of the Conservative Party at the conference of members on October 11. Later in the day Mr King was sworn in as Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs. There i no outstanding changes from the personnel of his previous Cabinet. Mr J. A. Robb resumes the portfolio of Finance, and the Customs Department, which the Conservatives strenuously attacked during the election campaign for alleged maladministration, will bo presided over by T W. D. Euler. Mr Meigben announced that every facility would be afforded the Canadian representatives appointed to attend the Imperial Conference, and if Parliament reassembled assistance would be given by the. Opposition for the promjit despatch of business. Mr King officially stated to-day that be would attend the Imperial Conference accompanied by Mr B. Lapointe (Minister of Justice), and possibly other Ministers. Parliament is likely to meet during the first week in December. Mr Forke, a former leader of the Progressives’, assumes the portfolio of Immigration and Colonisation. He was clcr 1 as joint Liberal-Progressive candidate. Mr Vincent Massey, a former president of the Massey-Harris Company has been chosen as Canada’s first Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington, but the Prime Minister announced to-day that a definite appointment would be held in abeyance until he had had an opportunity of discussing the matter with the Imperial Government when he attended the Imperial Conference. —A. and N.Z. Cable.