COLONIAL OFFICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22700, 12 April 1937, Page 9

COLONIAL OFFICE

PERMANENT STAFF CHANGES SIR J. MAFFEY TO RETIRE (Received April 11, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, April 10 Sir .John Maffev has expressed his desire to retire from the office of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, with effect from July 1. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Malcolm Macdonald, with the consent of the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, has' appointed Sir Cosmo Parkinson, at present ,an assistant Under-Secretary of State, to be Permanent Under-Secretary. Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Sierra Leone, has been appointed an assistant nnder-secretary in succession to Sir Cosmo Parkinson and will begin his 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 Colonial Secretary has appointed Mr. J. E. W. Flood, an assistant secretary in the Colonial Office, to succeed him.

Sir John Maffey has been Permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies since 1933. He was born in 1877 and received his education, at Rugby and Qecford, after which he entered the Indian Civil Service in 1899. He served with the Mohmand Field Force in 1908 and in

1914-15 he was Deputy Commissioner at Peshawar. Six years later he became Chief Commissioner in the North-West Frontier Province, holding the position until 1924, when he became GovernorGeneral of the Sudan.