Exchange of top diplomatic posts
Parliamentary reporter Mr M. J. C. Templeton, the New Zealand Permanent Representative to the United .Nations in New York, has been appointed Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs. The State Services Commission said that Mr Templeton, aged 53, would succeed Mr M. Norrish, who has been ‘appointed Ambassador to Washington. Mr Templeton joined the Department of External Affairs in 1946 after graduating with first-class honours from Otago University. In 1948, he spent some months in the United Nations Secretariat and early in 1950 served as acting Assistant Secretary in the New Zealand High Commission in Canberra.
He spent from 1951 to 1957 in the United States, first in Washington as Third Secretary and then in New York,
from 1954, as Second Secretary, and then First Secretary.
Mr Templeton returned to Wellington in 1957 to head the United Nations Division and later the Defence Division of the Ministry. He was posted as Counsellor to London in 1962 and in 1963 spent a year as a student at the Imperial Defence College.
He returned to New Zealand House as Minister until 1967, when he was transferred to Wellington as Assistant Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
In March 1972, Mr Temple- ; ton was seconded to the ; Prime Minister’s Department as deputy permanent head and acted from January to May, 1973, as Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Permanient Representative to the (United Nations in May, 1973.
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