BRITISH CABINET
MORE APPOINTMENTS. MINISTERIAL AND SUBORDINATE POSTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.22 p.m.) RUGBY, May 15. A further list of five Ministers and Under-Secretaries is issued as follows: Minister of Pensions, Sir W. J. Womersley. Postmaster-General, Mr W. S. Morrison.
Paymaster-General, Viscount Cranborne.
Attorney-General, Sir D. B. Somervell.
Lord Advocate, Mr Mackay Cooper. Solicitor-General, Sir W. Jowitt. Solicitor-General for Scotland, Mr J. S. C. Reid.
Financial Secretary to ihe Treasury, Captain H. F. C. Crookshank. Parliamentary Under-Secretaries: Home Office. Mr O. Peake. Home Security. Mr W. Mabane. Foreign Office, Mr R. A. Butler. Dominions’ Office, Mr G. Shakespeare. Colonial Office, Captain H. H. Balfour. Parliamentary Secretaries: To the Ministry of Shipping, Sir Arthur Salter. Ministry of Health, Miss Florence Horsbrugh. Board of Education, Mr J. Chuter Ede. Minister of Labour and National Service. Mr R. Assheton. Ministry of Supply. Mr 11. MacMillan. Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Tom Williams. Ministry of Food.' Mr R. J. Boothby. Ministry of Aircraft Production. Colonel J. Llewelin. Board of Trade. Major G. Lloyd George.
Admiralty Civil Lord. Captain A. U. M. Hudson.
Secretary for Mines. Mr D. R. Grenfell; Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade. Mr Harcourt Johnston.
Secretary for Petroleum. Mr G. W. Lloyd.
The post of Secretary for Petroleum is newly created and in view of the increased importance and perplexity of the duties in connection with coal and oil. respectively under present conditions, it has been decided to divide the duties hitherto discharged by the Secretary for Mines. Viscount Caldecote will lead the House of Lords.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1940, Page 6
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