CABINET CHANGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1941, Page 5

CABINET CHANGES

ANNOUNCED IN BRITAIN I MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD GOING TO CANADA. I ; LORD MOYNE MADE COLONIAL SECRETARY. ‘British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 8. A Downing Street announcement states that the .Minister of Health. Nir. Malcolm MacDonald, has been selected to fill the post of High Commissioner in Canada. Authority will be sought to enable him to retain his seat in Parliament during his torm of office. The King has approved the following appointments:— Secretary of State for the Colonies: Lord Moyne. Secretary of State for Scotland: Mr. Thomas Johnston. Minister of Health: Mr. Ernest Brown. New Junior Ministers have been appointed as follow: — | Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the i Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries: The Duke of Norfolk. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food: Major Lloyd George. Additional Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service: Mr. George Tomlinson. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions: Mr. William Parling. Additional Parliamentary Undersecretary to the Scottish Office: Mr. Henry Wedderburn. Paliamentary Secretary to the Board I of Trade: Captain Charles Waterhouse. ■ A Lord Commissioner of the Trcas-1 ury: Major Thomas Dugdale. Lord Moyne will be Leader of the! House of Lords. Major Dugdale will be Deputy-Chief i Whip. The procedure by which Mr. Mac-j Donald retains his seat in the House of' Commons while acting as High Com-1 missioner in Canada is in accordance ’ with the precedent followed when Sir Samuel Hoare. who is still M.P. for Chelsea, was Appointed British Ambassador in Madrid.

Lord Moyne took the oath of office as Colonial Secretary at a Privy Council held by the King this morning.

Mr. MacDonald is a son of the former Labour Prime Minister. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and is 40 years of age, He is regarded as one of the most energetic and successful members of the Government. Mr. Ernest Brown, formerly Minister of Labour, has been Secretary of State for Scotland since May, 1940. Mr. Johnson, the Labour member for Stirling, xvas Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1929 to 1931, and later became Lord Privy Seal. Lord Moyne was formerly the Hon. W. Guinness. He commanded a battalion during the Great War and received the D.S.O. He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1923 to 1925, and recently was joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture.