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RUGBY, September 11
Four off the leading men of the Conservative Party have now accepted important posts in big business undertakings. Lord Birkenhead, the famous lawyer who has been Lord Chancellor and Secretary for India, holds directorships in important companies, and is chairman of the Greater London and Counties Trust, a big combine of electric power companies. : ' } Sir ■> Austen Chamberlain, who was Foreign Minister in the last Conservative Administration, and Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, who was War Minister, have now joined Lord Birkenhead on the board of the Greater London {and Counties Trust..
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, late President of the Board of Trade, has become chairman of the Tin Producers’ Association, a newly-found organisation which has the support of 90 per cent df British tin producers and aims at the better organisations of that industry. Lord Birkenhead and Sir Laming Worthingtou-iM’ans left England for the United States to-day in the Olympic on a business mission. ■ •
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1929, Page 5
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