THE PRIME MINISTER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1941, Page 4

THE PRIME MINISTER

MAY RETURN BY END OF MONTH PROBABLY BEFORE SESSION ENDS. STATEMENT BY MR NASH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, is expected to return to New Zealand by the first week of September. After a tour of Scotland Mr Fraser is at present in London, and the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, said last night that on advice received from him he expected the Prime Minister to be back, in the Dominion at the end of this month or at the latest in the first week in September. Mr Fraser, in a message to Mr Nash, referred particularly to the very favourable response by the people of Great Britain to descriptions of New Zealand's war effort and. the part played. by the Dominion’s troops in Greece and Crete. Mr Fraser had been asked by the Ministry of Information to make a trip through some of the devastated areas of England and also parts of Scotland. In Parliamentary circles it is considered certain that the House of Representatives will still be in session when the Prime Minister returns, there being a good deal of business on the order joaper, with more coming. Mr Nash has intimated that any announcement about a general election or other developments in the political situation will be made from the floor of the House. It is expected that when something definite is said the statement will be made by the Prime Minister after consultation with Mr Nash and the Labour Party caucus.