INTERNAL AFFAIR?.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1668, 7 February 1913, Page 4

INTERNAL AFFAIR?.

A new branch;created. V

The Government has decided that'quefc 1 tions of local government law which oamo '•■.■ I within tho scope of the Department of In- > j tornal Affairs, shall in future. be. acftlt' ; with by a special branch of that Depart- • >■ mint.' Mr: G. P. Nowtonj at present chief. I clerk in tho Department'of Internal Af--, •.',' fairs, has been, appointed to take charge ■■■ of the new branch,, with the.rank of As- .',-'! sislant Under-Secretary. -l> Mr.,'l',,J. Kel- , ■ » j leher, at present.clerk in charge of the advertising, branch,'has boon promoted to / ] be chief-clerk;, Mr; A. Kennedy, at pre-: \ . ' sent accountant'.in the Department of In- ■ I ternal,Affairs, takes ovor control of the ::| advertising brnnoh, in conjunction with , , his present duties..' ~,' ■• , : •''!■'■' ./.V?, c -- '■• ■'.' ,! ,'■■, The, new ibranchj •will deal, generally i .■' speaking, with all matters,connected with >;/ the- administration of local i.govcrnment.j,. J throughout the Dominion which came bo- , • 1 -'. , -t fore the Department of Internal Affairs. ■■'..,. \ An. exchange of offices is;to bo effected' between the advertising branch of tho ])«-,' • v paTtmeiit ; of Internal Affairs and' the■; Civil Service Classification and; Suporan-, i nuation 80ard.,., The "advertising., office . will take over,the rooms in the Govern-, .{ irient Buildings immediately under the of- . ! ftces of the Department of Internal Af- ..-'■ -, fairs, and the Civil Service Classification , ~ Board will'take up its quarters m• the. .>•..( effices'intho Public- Trust Building vacot , ; ; cd by' the advertising branch, . ;; •'■,.;■'■ •. \