THE COLONIAL OFFICE
SIR CHARLES LUCAS RETIRING
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, LONDON, August 2.
It is understood that Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas,. head of the Dominions’ department of the Colonial Office, is about to retire owing to failing eyesight. - Sir H. W. Just, Assistant-DndeT-Secrotary for the Colonies, will probably succeed Sir Charles Lucas.
Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas is fifty-eight years of aee, saving been born on Mav 7th, 1353. Ue had a distinguished career at Oxford, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1835. Ho was made a 0.8. in 1901 and K.C.M.G. in 1907., , Ho recently mad© a tour of the Dominions on behalf of tho Colonial Office, in order to obtain first-hand information as to their condition, capabilities and resources. He is tho Registrar of the Order of St. Michael and St.. George. Sir Hartmann Wolfgang Just, who was knighted at King George’s Coronation, was born in 1854. He was appointed principal clerk in tho Colonial Office in 1897 and Assistant ‘Under-Secretary far tho Colonies in 1907.. Ho was secretory to tho Imperal Conference.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7870, 4 August 1911, Page 5
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