VICTORIAN MINISTRY.
Sir Stanley Argyle Invited to Form Cabinet. MELBOURNE .May 17. The Lieutenant-Governor, Sir William Irvine, has invited the leader’ of the
United Australia Party, Sir Stanley Argyle, to form a Ministry. Sir Stanley has accepted the invitation and will probably announce the personnel of the Cabinet to-mor-row night. He hopes to form a composite Ministry, which will include several Country I Party members.
Countryman, successful doctor and distinguished soldier. Sir Stanley Argyle is a man of great ability and extremely likeable personality. His integrity is above suspicion, and he has high ideals of service. Although he has represented a city constituency, Toorak, since his advent to the House in 1920, his elevation to the highest office in the State would prove popular in the rural district of Kyneton, where he was born sixty-four years ago.
Twelve years ago he went into politics with a definite mission. A man of great medical experience and wide knowledge of public hygiene and health problems, he helped to bring about more effective supervision of the people’s food and to lift the hospitals and charities systems from the muddle into which they had fallen.
Barely three years after his entry into the Assembly he was taken into the Lawson Ministry as Chief Secretary and Minister for Health, and he held similar portfolios in every non-Labour Administration since. During the absence abroad of Sir. Wiliam M’Pherson he acted as Premier, and with Sir William’s retirement his claims to the leadership of the party were unchallenged.
In 1927 Sir Stanley visited America at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation to study hospital administration and maintenance. Although political business has claimed most of his attention in recent years, he has
continued to take a lively interest in the advancement of medicine. Ilis services to the State and his profession were recognised in 1930, when he received a knighthood.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 456, 18 May 1932, Page 1
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