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Mr. Millington Had To Rebuke Two Fellow Ministers
Comic Side Of East Fremantle
Council Affair
Mr. Millington Deputy Premier and Minister for Works. Mr, Kitson Minister for Education Mr. Gray I Help
Mr. Millington
Deputy Premier
and Minister for
Works.
IF Minister for Works Harold Millington likes
Gilbert and Sullivan he's no doubt familiar with
Pooh-Bah's peculiar problems in his various
official capacities in "The Mikado/'
If ^.Millington were Pooh-Bah he might reflect along these ;
lines: i
"As Deputy-Premier I work in complete harmony with my
fellow Cabinet members, Mr. E. H. Gray and Mr. W. Kitson.
Mr. Millington Deputy Premier and Minister for Works. Mr, Kitson Minister for Education Mr. Gray I Help
Mr, Kitson
Minister for
Education
"Ai; Minister for Works, I must
criticise them and their fellow coun-
cillors out at East Fremantle for
carrying out a work 'in a dilatory and
nonchalant manner!* "
Mr. W. S. Gilbert, himself, would
have appreciated the parallel to Pooh
Bxh in. the situation which has arisen
between the. Minister and the East
Fremantle Municipal Council.
For Mr. Millington, as Minister for
Works, has administered a stinging
rebuke to the East Fremant?« Council
: which. numbers
amongst its mem-
bers his Cabinet
lolleagues, Messrs.
Gray and Kitson.
They, in effect
have taken an
official rap across
:the knuckles the
same as the other
East Fremantle
councillors.
Trouble all
started over the
council's activities
in Easton - road,
Mr. Millington Deputy Premier and Minister for Works. Mr, Kitson Minister for Education Mr. Gray I Help
Mr. Gray I
wnere, many Mon. Minister
months ago, blasting operations were
commenced with a view to excavating
a cutting through which the road
would pass.
A ratepayer living nearby objected
to the long .drawn-out nature of the
work; to the incessant hammering and
blasting, to the blitzkrieg of stones
which, be ein'med, rained down on bis
roof-top and to the open and danger-
ous nature of the cut.
Cabinet Minister Millington made a
personal inspection and his critical
letter to the council was the result.
Works Committee of the East Fre-
mantle Council gave consideration to
the matter on Thursday night.
But perhaps the most piquant as-
pect of the whole business is that
Cabinet minister and East Fremantle
Councillor E. H. Gray is now occupy-
ing the role of Acting-Minister for
Works in Mr. Millington's temporary
absence!
However, as all concerned are good
sports there isn't, any likelihood of the
affair causing a split in the Cabinet.
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