MINISTRY SHUFFLE
"WOMAN IN GOVERNMENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 14. Following the establishment of the Ministry of Supply there has been a reorganisation among the junior Ministers, bringing a woman M.P. into the Government. The appointment of Colonel J. Llewellin as Parliamentary Secretary to the new Ministry, at the head of which is Dr. E. L. Burgin, leaves a vacancy in the Admiralty;, where Captain Hudson becomes Civil Lord. Mr Robert Bernavs succeeds Captain Hudson as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, and his place as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health is filled by Miss Florence Horsburgh (Conservative, Dundee), who has been a member of tbo British delegation to the League Assombly at Geneva on several occasions.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 193, 17 July 1939, Page 8
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121MINISTRY SHUFFLE Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 193, 17 July 1939, Page 8
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