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BRITISH CABINET

SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES NEW POST FOR LORD BEAVERBROOK SHIPPING AND TRANSPORT AMALGAMATED. UNDER MR F. J. LEATHERS. (British Official Wireless.) . (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) RUGBY, May 1. Important. Cabinet changes have been announced from No. 10 Downing Street. They include the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. C. Moore Brabazon to be Minister of Aircraft Production in place of Lord Beaverbrook, who has been given a rarelyemployed office “of Minister of State. The Ministries of Shipping and Transport are amalgamated, the new Minister being Mr F. J. Leathers, who becomes a baron and a member of the Privy Council. Mr R’ H. Cross, Minister of Shipping, receives the post of High Commissioner in Australia. Colonel J. J. Llewellin becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Mr F. Montague Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aircraft Production. The amalgamation of the Shipping and Transport Departments for the purposes of the war-will be effected forthwith and certain functions of the Ministry of Transport, only remotely .xnnected with communication, will, if desirable, bo transferred to the Board of Trade or other Departments. The combined ministry, when the process of amalgamation is completed, will become the Ministry of War Time Communications. Mr Leathers is at present adviser on coal to the Ministry of Shipping and controls coal bunkers all over the world and shipments of coal generally.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 6

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BRITISH CABINET Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 6

BRITISH CABINET Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 6

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