LABOUR PARTY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22743, 2 December 1935, Page 10

LABOUR PARTY

THE PARLIAMENTARY MEMBERS CAUCUS MEETING TO-MORROW TASK OF CABINET BUILDING (Pee United Peess Association) AUCKLAND, November 30. One of the first outward and visible actions of the New Zealand Parliamentary Labour Party, which scored a sweeping victory at the polls last Wednesday, will be a discussion of national affairs at a caucus meeting in Parliament Buildings on Tuesday morning. All the Labour members of Parliament have been advised by Mr Savage to assemble in Wellington for a meeting which is to begin in the Government Whip’s room at 10.30 a.m. It is expected that every elected mepiber of the Parliamentary Labour Party will be present—a muster of 53, only two short of the number of followers elected in support of the Reform leader in 1925. “ We shall survey events at the meeting,” Mr Savage said this morning. “There will be a full and frank discussion in which all members will participate. The question of the Cabinet will of course be discussed. More than that I shall not say concerning the making of a Cabinet. As I said the other day the Cabinet will not be made in five minutes. We want team work. I know that we shall have confidence as between each other. All will have a job to do and each will do his job.” Mr Savage, who has been subjected to a heavy strain following the general election campaign, in which he never spared himself, shows surprisingly little sign of fatigue. Mr Savage will reach Wellington by the limited express at 9.41 a.m. on Monday and it is anticipated that he will have an immediate interview with the Prime Minister, Mr Forbes. It is expected there will be a large crowd at Thorndon station on Monday to welcome New Zealand’s first Labour Prime Minister, THE OUTGOING CABINET RESIGNATION ON WEDNESDAY (Pee United Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 30. The following statement was issued today by the Prime Minister, Mr 6. W. Forbes: — “A meeting .of the Cabinet was held this morning to consider the constitutional position arising out of the general election and it was decided to tender to his Excellency the Governor-General the Government’s resignation at the earliest possible moment. “ Many of the Ministers arrived in Wellington only this morning and there is the necessity to clean up the routine work which has accumulated during their absence from their offices for the past month. A short time is needed for the purpose of dealing with routine matters only, all important decisions being left to our successors.

“ I am anxious that the administration should be handed over at the earliest practicable moment and I propose therefore to tender our resignations on Wednesday.”