SEALS OF OFFICE PASS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18862, 10 November 1924, Page 7

SEALS OF OFFICE PASS.

[BRITISH GOVERNMENT. HEW CABINET SWORN-IN. MINISTERS START WORK. : LABOUR AND THE KINO. CORDIAL RELATIONSHIPS. By Telseraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received 7.5 p.m.") (A and N.Z.-Eeuter. LONDON. Nov. 8. By a strange coincidence the transfer of the seals of office from Mr. Eamsay MacDonald to the new Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, at Buckingham Palace, {synchronised with the changing of the guards. The Prince of Wales and Prince 'Arthur of Connaught attended the Privy Council meeting at which the Ministers ■were sworn-in. Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, drove straight from the Palace and took up his duties at Downing Street. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary ot -State for Foreign Affairs, later took over the Foreign Office. The only new appointment to the Cabinet so far announced is that of Mr. B. M. Eyres Monsell as Chief Whip. Ho was Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in the last Conservative Government. Mr. Baldwin went to Chequers for th« week-end. Mr. Mac Donald has gone to Oxford for a holiday and Mr. J. H. Thomas, exSecretary for the Colonies, is already back in the Railway Union headquarters. Mr. C. G. Ammon, M.P-, late Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, writing, in the Sunday Express on the relationship between the Crown and the Labour Government says: "It would be no exaggeration to say that the relations between His Majesty and Mr. Mac Donald are cordial. Mr. Thomas, who usually has a good story to tell, was not an unwelcome 'visitor to the Palace. Mr. Arthur Henderson, ex-Secretary for Home Affairs, whose duties took him more to Court than any other Minister, was certainly persona grata. Mr. Harry Gosling, late Minister for Transport, was quit* popular. " No one in touch with King George could fail to be agreeably surprised at his wide general knowledge. It is a matter \ almost of surprise to realise how smoothly everything worked during the nine months the Labour Government was in office. There is not a member of the late Government who does not leave with an added respect for His Majesty and a greater appreciation of his value as the chief executive officer of the State." The press generally approves Mr. L. C. *M. S. 'Amery's appointment as Secretary for the Colonies. The Morning Post says: ."We rejoice that Mr. Amery has been appointed to the Colonial Office. There are few politicians with greater knowledge of or sounder views.on Imperial problems. 1 ' The Daily Telegraph says it considers Mr., Amery is likely to have~an exceptionally difficult time with Ireland, which js now one of the Pominions. j The 'Daily Chronicle says Mr. Amery was always a stalwart protectionist and a " die-har<L" The Rt. Hon. B. M. Eyres Monsell, who held the position of a Conservative Whip as far back as 1911, first entered Parliament in 1910 as member for the Evesham division of Worcestershire. He has seen several years' service in the navy and specialised as a torpedo lieutenant in 1903. He was placed on .the emergency list in 1906, but he "returned to the navy on the outbreak of the great war and received the Order of the Nile for services in Egypt in 1915, being mentioned in despatches. He was created commander in 1917. Mr. Monsell was a Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 1921 and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty in 1922-23.