MR. C. A. JEFFERY, C.M.G

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 10

MR. C. A. JEFFERY, C.M.G

Mr. C. A. JefTery, C.M.G., chief private secretary lo the Prime Minister, and Clerk to the Executive Council, started his career in the Public Service in 1904, joining the statT of the Post and Telegraph Department. He served at the ■ cable station at Wakapuaka and later at the head office, Wellington, and in 1914 was chosen to assist at Government House in the additional secretarial work caused by the war-. In 1915 he was appointed private secretary to the late Sir Arthur Myers, then Minister of Munitions. Mr. JefTery, in 1916, joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and was on active service until the end of the war. On returning to the Dominion he resumed his former position with Sir Arthur Myers. In 1919 he was appointed private secretary to the Hon. J. B. Hine. then Minister of Internal Affairs. On Mr. Hine's defeat at the General Election poll, Mr. Jeftery was attached to the secretarial staff of the late Mr. W. F. Massey, who was Prime Minister. Following that statesman':; desfh, Mr. Jeffery was appointed to a secretarial position on the start ot the Right Hon. J. G. Coates. He became the' Prime Minister's chief private secretary, following the appointment ol the late Mr. F. D. Thomson as Permanent Head of the Prime Minister's Department. Since then Mr. JefTery successively has been chief private sec-

retary to four Prime Ministers—the Kight Hon. J. G. Coates, the late Sir Joseph Ward, the Right Hon. G. W. ForDes, and the Hon. M. J. Savage. Mr. Jeffery has visited London in connection with conferences with the Imperial authorities in 1930, 1933, and again last year, when he accompanied Mr. Forbes to London to take part in their Majesties' Jubilee celebrations.