MR HOGG'S RESIGNATION.
MR CARROLL TO BE ACTING PRIME MINISTER. MR MILLAR ACTING TREASURER WELLINGTON, June 17. 'Affairs in connection with Mr Hogg's secent speech in the House of Representatives assumed an important phase to-day. The Cabinet decided that Mr Hogg would have to go, and his resignation has been handed in. The main reason for asking him to resign is because of his advocacy of paper money. As Sir Joseph Ward is going Home partly to float a loan, Mr Hogg's speech (if he continued to remain a. Minister of the Crown} ,-vv-ouM have a very damaging effect. Mr Hogg has thus had a brief but somewhat meteoric career as a member of- the Cabinet; or perhaps* a better simile would be that he went up like a rocket and came down like the stick. During Sir Jcseph Ward's absence in London the Hon. Mr Carroll will act as ~ Prime Minister, and the Hon. . Mr Millar •will assume the position of Acting Minister oi Finance.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2883, 23 June 1909, Page 38
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