MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17059, 14 June 1926, Page 7

MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT.

THE PREMIER'S ANNOUNCEMENT. In announcing the appointment of Mr. K. S. Williams as Minister of Public Works, the Prime Minister, Mr. .1. O. Coates, made the following statement : , "In the course of my statement some weeks ago regarding Ministerial appointments and s changes in portfolios, I stated that with a view to lessening the load I was carrying it was my intention at an early date to relinquish the portfolio of Public Works, which 1 have held#for some years. I have accordingly tendered to His Excellency mv resignation of this posi-, tion, and Mr. K. S. Williams, M.P. for Bav of Plenty, will be appointed to the vacant portfolio. Mr. Williams will he sworn in as a member of the Executive Council immediately and will assume the duties of his office at once. '•1 feel confident that Mr. Williams, as a practical farmer, with a lifelong experience and knowledge of the requirements of our country districts and what one may term the 'backblocks' settler, will render good and efficient service. He possesses also a long exporioncoi of local government and has always shown practical sympathy with the pioneer and the wage-earner. 1 know that the men employed in the Public Works Department will have in their new Minister an interested and large-hearted 'boss'. "The appointment of Mr. Williams brings the Cabinet now up to full' working strength. I should like to repeat that where there are so many eligible members of the party which I have the honor to lend I have found the task of making the selection of. new Ministers no easy one. I know; it is impossible in these matters to give universal satisfaction, but I have en_ deavorod to pick a team that will, I believe give of their best in the .service of the Dominion."