PRIME MINISTER'S SECRETARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 1 April 1926, Page 7

PRIME MINISTER'S SECRETARY

.ML. F. D. THOMSON'S CAREER Head of the Prime .Minister's Department. .Mr E. I). Thomson has had a long career in the departments Of State. emments the Christchurch Star. His first association with Imperial subjects was in 1902. who.) he was on Mr Sediliui's secretarial staff, an ilaccoinpanied the Prime Mm inter to what then was ■ ailed the Colonial Conference, and the c.noi.atioi! of King Edward VII. His next visit in Loudon was with the late Prime Minister. Mr Massey, in 1910. when boll, lie head of I lie '< ioveriimenl ami Sir Jo.-eph Ward, as leader of Ihe Opposition, went lo Loudon ai the in gent invitation of (be I'.riiish (iovcru iiieni t.. dis-eusM matters connected with the war. This was followed early in 1917 bv ihe summoning nf the Imperial War Cabinet, which Mr Massey attended with Mr Thomson as his chief seer.' tar.v. Mr Thomson was. at the next War Cabinet ,n 1918. and al the Peace Conference o!' Paris in 1919. It was on the killer occasion that Sir Maurice Hnnkov, secretary of the British delegation, formed the Impel ial Secretariat, w'th the object of associating those permanent officers of liie Crown throughout (he Empire who nre regularly dealing with Imperial affairs. Mr Thomson, is one of the foundalion members of this both-. He again visited England In 1921 and 1923. when Mr Massey attended the hhperial Conferences. II is services ai Ihe Paris Con ference were recognised bv his Majeslv <p 1919, when he was made CM.(J.