STATE APPOINTMENTS
SEVERAL CHANGES ANNOUNCED NEWS FROM COLONIAL OFFICE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, April 10. The King has approved the appointment of Mr Lawrence Roger Lumley, at present member of Parliament for York, to succeed Lord Brabourne as Governor of Bombay. Sir John Maffey has expressed a desire to retire from the office of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Colonies, with effect from _ July 1. Sir Cosmo Parkinson, an assistant Under-Secretary of State, has been appointed Permanent Under-Secretary in succession to Sir John Maffey. Sir Henry Monckmason Moore, at present Governor and Commander-in-chief of Sierra Leone, has been appointed an assistant Under-Secretary in succession to Sir Cosmo Parkinson, to assume duty at the Colonial Office at the beginning of September. Sir Percy Ezechiel, -Third Crown Agent for the Colonies, will retire from the service with effect from January 1, 1938, and the Secretary fer Colonies has appointed Mr J. E. W. Flood, an assistant secretary in the Colonial Office, to succeed him.
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Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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