COUNCIL OF INDIA
NEW FINANCE MEMBER SIR GEORGE SCHUSTER British Wireless — Press Assn.—Copyright RUGBY. Monday. The India Office announces that King George has approved o£ the appointment of Sir George Schuster to be a member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India, Lord Irwin, from September next. Sir George will retain his present appointment as Financial and Economic Adviser to the Colonial Office until his departure for India. It is contemplated that before then the task of the East African Commission, on which Sir George is at present serving, will be completed. The temporary vacancy on the Executive Council of the GovernorGeneral, which will exist from the expiration of the term of office of Sir Basil Blackett, the Financial Member, in April next, until the arrival of Sir George Schuster in India, will, under section 92 of the Government of India Act, be tilled by the GovernorGeneral in-Council who has decided to appoint Mr. A. C. McWatters, Financial Secretary to the Government of India. It is intended that Sir Bhupendra Nath Mitra a member of the Executive Council, shall temporarily take charge of the Finance Department, and Mr. McWatters of the Department of Labour. —A. and N. Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 221, 7 December 1927, Page 9
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