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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 10

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CRITICISM IN BRITAIN PERSONNEL OF MINISTRY LONDON. Oct. 13. Surprise was caused by the tabling in the House of Commons of a long list of members of the headquarters staff of the Ministry of Information, dubbed “Mumbling Minnie," together with their salaries. Many persons unknown tb journalism were shown as receiving £SOO to £IOOO a year and more. For example, there were the following:—A retired major of marines, an Oxford tutor and a Fellow of Cambridge, an Egyptian civil servant, a schoolmaster, a director of the Student Movement Press, a professor of theology, a councillor of the Historical Association. All receive £6OO a year; and several “writers and publicists” £9OO or £IOOO. In the £9OO a year bracket is Mr. Thomas Wood, M.A., D.Mus., examiner for the Royal Society of Music and author of “Cobbers,'’. ‘"~rue Thomas’’ and other books. In receipt of £1650 a year is Lieutenant-Colonel E. T. Crutchley, C. 8.. C.M.G., C.8.E., 0.8. E., who was British Government representative for migration in Australia from 1931 to 1935, and since then has been an Under-Secretary at the Dominions Office. A cablegram received subsequently stated that the staff of the Ministry had been substantially reduced.