BACK FROM BALMORAL

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 233, 1 October 1932, Page 9

BACK FROM BALMORAL

King and Queen End Scottish Holiday. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, September 30. The King and Queen returned to London early, this morning by the Royal train from Ballater on conclusion of their visit to Balmoral. They drove to Buckingham Palace ehortly before 10 o'clock. The Prime Minister drove to the Palace and remained with the King for over an hour. It is understood that the retiring Ministers, Viscount Snowden, Sir Herhert Samuel and Sir Archibald Sinclair, will surrender their seals of office to the King to-morrow when His Majesty will hold a Privy Council and hand over the seals to the new Ministers of the Government. A further Cabinet meeting was held to-day at which, it is understood, questions relating to India and disarmament were considered. No further meeting of Cabinet is expected until the week after next. The Prime Minister left London tonight for the north and he will be away until the end of next week. The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, is ' returning from Geneva on Sunday, and will fly* all the way in an Air Force machine. The King has approved the following appointments to the posts rendered vacant by the Liberal resignations from the. Ministry:—Sir F. G. Penny (Conservative), previously vice-Chamber-lain, to be Controller of His Majesty's household; Sir Victor "Warrender (Conservative), previously one of the junior Lords of the Treasury, to be vice-Cham-berlain of His Majesty's household; Mr. Ernest Brown (National Liberal), formerly Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, to be Secretary to the Mines Department; Mr. Geoffry Shakespeare (National Liberal), formerly one of the junior Lords of the Treasury, to be Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health; Mr. James Blindell (National Liberal), junior Lordof the Treasury and Dr. Morris Jones (National Liberal) assistant.