Woman Cabinet Secretary
Political reporter A former diplomat and* journalist, Mrs Marie Shroff, has been appointed as the first woman Secretary of the Cabinet Mrs Shroff succeeds Mr Patrick Millen, who has served Prime Ministers since Norman Kirk. After graduating from the University of Auckland, Mrs Shroff joined the then External Affairs' Department' before becoming: 'a broadcasting journalist and later an
English teacher in Western Samoa. IP 1970 she joined the Education Department and from 1975-78 was Information Officer at the New Zealand Cohsulate in New York. Mrs Shroff joined the State Services Commission in 1978 and has held a dumber of senior posts, most recently as director of the State enterprises branch, co-ordinating the commission’s involvement in corporatisation. : She will -take up her new post later this month.
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Press, 7 October 1987, Page 8
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