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Taranaki Daily News, 4 April 1921, Page 5

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SOME IMPORTANT CHANCES, NEW VICEROY OF IRELAND. .ROMAN CATHOLIC APPOINTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 3, 5.5 p.m. London, April 1. The following appointments are officially announced:— Lord Edmund Talbot, one of the Parliamentary Secretaries to the Treasury, succeeds Lord French as Viceroy of Ireland. Sir Robert Horne, President of the Board of Trade, becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, one of the Financial Secretaries to the Treasury, will be the new President of the Board of Trade. Mr. F. G. Kellaway, until lately at the Ministry of Munitions (now closed), becomes Postmaster-General in place of Sir Alfred Illingworth, who is retiring owing to ill-health. Sir Alfred Mond, First Commissioner of Works, is appointed Minister of Health, in place of Dr. C. Addison, who remains in the Cabinet without portfolio.

Captain the Hon. F. E. Guest, one of the Parliamentary Secretaries to the Treasury, becomes Air Minister, vice Mr. Winston* Churchill.

Mr. Crawford has been appointed First Commissioner of Works. Major Edward Wood has been appointed Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in place of Mr. L. C. Amery, who becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty. Mr. Lloyd George will be Director of the Overseas Trade Department. Lord Edmund Talbot is the first Roman Catholic Viceroy of Ireland. He will take up his duties on May 1 under the Government of Ireland Act.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.