JUNIOR MINISTERS.
APPOINTMENT IN BRITAIN. NEW UNDER-SECRETARIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 15. A further list of five Ministers and Under-Secretaries is issued as follows: MINISTER OF PENSIONS—Sir Walter Womersley. POSTM ASTEIt-GENER AL—-Mr W. S. Morrison. PAYMASTER-GENERAL. Viscount Cranborne. ATTORNEY-GENE R AL—Sir Donald Somervell. LORD ADVOCATE FOR SCOTLAND. —Mr T. Mackay Cooper. SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Sir William Jovvitt. SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND—Mr J. S. C. Reid. FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY—Captain H. F. C. Crookshank.
Parliamentary Under-Secretaries have been appointed as follow :—Home Office, Mr O. Peake; Home Security, Mr W. Mabane; Foreign Office, Mr R. A. Butler; Dominions Office, Mr G. H. Shakespeare.
Parliamentary Secretaries are as follows:—Ministry of Shipping, Sir Arthur Salter; Ministry of Health, Miss Florence Ilorsbrugh; Board of Education, Mr J. Chuter Edc; Minister of Labour and National Service, Mr It. Assheton; Ministry of Supply, Mr H. Macmillan ; Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Tom Williams; Ministry of Food, Mr R. J. Boothby. Colonial Office.—Parliamentary Un-der-Secretarv, Mr G. H. Hall. Air Ministry.—Parliamentary Un-der-Secretary, Captain H. H. Balfour. Ministry of Aircraft ProductionParliamentary. Secretary, Colonel J. Llewellin. Admiralty.—Civil Lord, Captain A. U. M. Hudson. Board of Trade.—Parliamentary Secretary, Major G- Lloyd George. Secretary of Mines.—Mr D. R. Gren fell. Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade.—Mr Harcourt Johnston. Secretary of Petroleum. —Mr G. W. Lloyd. The post of Secretary of Petroleum is newly-created and, in view of the increased importance and perplexity of duties iu connection with coal and oil, respectively, under present conditions, it lias been decided to divide tlm duties hitherto discharged by the Secretary of Mines. Viscount Caldecote. the new Dominions Secretary, will load the House of Lords.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 143, 17 May 1940, Page 6
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