NOT NEW TO OFFICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 684, 8 June 1929, Page 1

NOT NEW TO OFFICE

of the 19 members of the new Cabinet were members of the 1924 Labour Cabinet. In his earlier Administration Mr. MacDonald himself combined the duties of Foreign Secretary, now undertaken by Mr. Arthur Henderson, j with those of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury. With the appointment of Miss Margaret Bondfield as Minister of Labour | a woman attains Cabinet rank for the first time.

THIRTEEN WERE MEMBERS OF 1924 CABINET FIRST WOMAN APPOINTED British Official 'Wireless Reed. 11.40 a.m. RUGBY, Friday. The Scottish legal Cabinet appoint ments are still under consideration. It is also announced that the reason why the name of Sir Henry Slesser, who was Solicitor-General in the last Labour Government, does not appear in the list is that other services have been assigned to him, which will be made known later, while it is pointed out that the Right Hon. Vernon Hartshorn, who was Postmaster-General in the previous Labour administration, is temporarily engaged on the Indian Statutory Commission. Lord Arnold, the unpaid PaymasterGeneral in the new Government, has accepted a position with nominal duties in order to be free for work in the House of Lords, and in other ways. Sir Oswald Mosley and Mr. George Lansbury, it is announced, will also have other duties imposed upon them, in connection with schemes for national reconstruction, which are being prepared. Although several Ministers have changed to other departments, 13 out