N.S.W. ELECTIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18458, 17 April 1922, Page 5

N.S.W. ELECTIONS

NEWSPAPERS’ COMMENTS SYDNEY, April 15. The Daily Telegraph comments that: "The new Ministry is not rich in surprises, except for the Economy Party, which might fairly have considered 13 portfolios an ovei generous number to handle the business of the State. However, on the whole the portfolios have been allotted with some reference to appropriateness. It looks like a satisfactory and capable team from whom much may be confidently expected in the way of calling a halt to the reckless squandering of public money and applying the physician’s touch to our sick industries.”

The Morning Herald says: "The Cabinet is a particularly strong one. Whilst it comprises a number of seasoned politicians, it also contains a lot of new, young and promising men.”—Press Association. MR DOOLEY’S EXPLANATION. SYDNEY, April 15. Mr Dooley has issued a statement regarding the result of the elections. He claims for the Labour Party generally a sincere desire to promote the best interests of the State. He says: "There is no doubt that the few men in the ranks of Labour who put their selfish interests and ambitions first played a prominent part in causing our defeat at the polls, but notwithstanding this, Labour could have pulled through if the issue had been decided upon politics and not sectarianism. Never in the history of State elections did sectarianism play such a part as in the recent polls." Mr Dooley claims there was no administrative act of the Labour Government but what was clean, straightforward and in the best interests of the State, and also that he left the financial position better than he found it. —Press Association.