NEW APPOINTMENTS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 236, 19 June 1926, Page 9

NEW APPOINTMENTS

y IN PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT Three appointments in the Prime Minister’s Department, including that of the special officer who will deal with Imperial and external affairs, were announced by Air. Coates yesterday. Mr. C. A. Berendsen, LL.M., has been appointed to the Imperial Affairs branch; Mr. C. A. Jeffery, who for manv vears has been attached * to the Prime ’Minister’s secretarial staff, is promoted to the position of Chief Secretary, and Mr. R. M. Campbell, M.A., LL.B., becomes attached to the secretarial staff. Until recently the office of Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister was held bv Mr. F. D. Thomson, 8.A., C.M.G., who is now the permanent head of the Department. Mr. Berendsen is under 40 years of age, and is a barrister of the Supreme Court, and on behalf of the Department of Labour he has appeared in the courts in many important cases brought by the Department. Mr. Berendsen, in passing the LL.M, degree, secured horn ours in international law. He went to the war, and on his return was appointed Deputy-Registrar of Industrial Unions; he has also acted as head of the Labour Department in the absence of the Secretary of Labour. Mr. Berendsen has studied the industrial conditions of the Dominion, and is conversant with the Labour laws. It has also been part of his duties to attend to all correspondence connected with the International Labour section of the League of Nations. Mr. Berendsen joined the Public Service in 1906, and his promotion has been rapid. Mr. Campbell was born at Maungatapcre, in the North Auckland district, in 1898, was educated at the Whangarei High School, and joined the Education Department, where he has been until the present time. Mr. Campbell holds the degree of LL.B., and also the M.A. degree. Both degrees were obtained at Victoria University College; in the case of the M.A. he obtained first-class honours in economics. He occupies the position “of president of the Victoria College Students’- Association, and is chairman of the Debating Society. This vear lie was awarded the Jacob Joseph Reeearch Scholarship in economics.