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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 March 1943, Page 4

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OF THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT MR C. A. JEFFERY APPOINTED. OTHER STAFF CHANGES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) announced today that Mr C. A. Jeffery, C.M.G., had been appointed Permanent Head of the Prime Minister’s Department. Mr Jeffery will in addition retain his present positions of Clerk of the Executive Council, Secretary to Cabinet and Chief Private Secretary. In the reorganisation of the Department consequent on the departure Of Mr C. A. Berendsen, Mr Fraser stated, Mr A. D. Mclntosh, at present First Secretary (diplomatic) of the Prime Minister’s Department, had been appointed Secretary to the War Cabinet and would carry out that portion of Mr Berendsen’s duties directly relating to the war effort. Mr Mclntosh would also continue to deal departmentally with matters relating to foreign affairs and external relations generally. The Prime Minister added that Mr Foss Shanahan, at present Secretary of Organisation for National Security, Prime Minister’s Department, had been appointed Assistant-Secretary to the War Cabinet and secretary to the Chiefs of Staff Committee. As a result of this reorganisation, the functions of the Organisation for National Security will be taken over by the War Cabinet Secretariat and the term Organisation for National Security, which has now become a misnomer, will no longer be used.