N.S.W. GOVERNMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17407, 4 November 1930, Page 5

N.S.W. GOVERNMENT

MINISTRY SELECTED FINAL ELECTION FIGURES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, Nov. 3. Tlio following have been elected by the Labor caucus for Ministerial office iu the State Cabinet, and portfolios ; as allotted by Mr. Lang are as under: Mr. Lang.—Premier and Treasurer. Mr. Baddelcv.—Mines, Labor and Industry. Mr. Davidson:—Public* Works and Railways. Mr. Davis. —Edueation. Mr. Dunn.—Agriculture and Forests. Mr. W. T. Ely.—Assistant Minister for Labor and Industry. Mr. Gosling,—Chief Secretary. ME McGirr.—Health. Mr. Tally.—Lands. Mr. Latnaro.—Justice. Mr. Me Kell. — Attorney-General. Mr. Willis. —Vice-President of the Executive Council. Mr. .1. Conoandon.—Honorary Minister of the Legislative-Council. Mr. F. Burke.-—Speaker in the Assembly. Mr. ('onnr 11. —Chairman of Committees. a A rein.irksido feature of lire caucus meeting was the defeat of Mr. Lysaght in the hailots for the selection of tin l Ministry. 31 r. Lang, at the close of the ballots. obtained permission to nominate a fourteenth Cabinet Minister. 1 Having 'obtained this, he nominated Mr. Lysaght for the portfolio of AttorneyGeneral. Labor won Hie Murray seat by. a narrow margin. The final state of parties is:—

“VIEWED WITH SUSPICION” ’ MR. LANG’S CREDENTIALS

“Mr. Lang.” says the Melbourne Age, “now becomes the political head ■of the Stale, but throughout Australia and overseas men and women view with the gravest suspicion Lis political capacity and credentials. He has previously occupied the office, and recollections of his occupancy do not awaken public confidence. Still less are tiny reassurances to bo found in his pre-election utterances. His persistent efforts to belittle the seriousness of the economic problem and the lightheartedness with which he has undertaken to find and apply'a sure solution have aroused widespread wonder ns to whether lie was to be treated seriously. “Now the flamboyant platform orator becomes a responsible Premier and Treasurer. Will responsibility make him administratively sober? Academic economic theories and empty rodomontades will no longer servo. He has achieved his present success mainly by dangerous promises to needy men and ( union and by violent denunciations of bis promise-bonol opponents. Will Mr. Lang’s p,:d*c:*l honor hind him ns lovally to it is promises? As soon as he assumes office these will lie as a Nciim-os . Industrial .workers have been promis.'-l abundant employment and high wages; agriculturists have been promised stabilised markets and high prices. How, and how soon, shall these things be?

“The new Premier has declared ho will repudiate the llnancial agreement ami will withdraw from the Loan Council. Ho affects to know that he can borrow £15,000,000 for the resuming of uncompleted public works. Labor, lie said, will find the money. Will he now satisfy an intense public curiosity as to the source'? „ Or, is it possible that, beset at last by the stern facts, the new Premier will realise, as so clearly did Ins predecessor, that there is no way for either Now South Wales or for Australia out’ of the’ existing, humiliating and bewildering plight other than by adopting in Governmental administration those' methods which the financial agreement embodies? ’ ’

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