RECONSTRUCTED CABINET

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1932, Page 7

RECONSTRUCTED CABINET

REPLACEMENT OF LIBERALS

INDIAN OFFICE SUCCESSOR

KING RETURNS TO LONDON

MR. MACDONALD. RECEIVED

British Wireless. Rugby, Sept. 30. The King and Queen returned to London early this morning by Royal train from Ballater on the conclusion of their visit to Balmoral. They drove to Buckingham Palace.

Shortly before 10 o’clock the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, drove to the Palace and remained with the King for over an hour.

Great interest is shown by the newspapers in the announcement that Mr. Richard Butler succeeds Lord Lothian as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of the India Office. He is a son of Sir Montague Butler, of the Government of the Central Provinces, and has a wide knowledge of Indian affairs and the working of the India Office. In the National Government Mr. Butler has acted as Parliamentary private secretary to the Secretary for India. He was a member of the Indian Franchise Committee of which Lord Lothian was chairman.

A further Cabinet meeting was held today at which it is understood questions relating to India and disarmament were considered. No further meeting of Cabinet is expected until the week after next.

The Prime Minister left London to-night for the north and he will be away until the end of next week. The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, is returning from Geneva on Sunday and will fly all the way in an Air Force machine.

- The King has approved the following appointments to the posts rendered vacant by the Liberal resignations from the Ministry

Sir F. G. Penny (Conservative), previously. Vice-Chamberlain, to be Controller of His Majesty’s Household. Sir Victor Warrender (Conservative), previously one of the Junior Lords of the Treasury, to be Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesty’s Household, Mr. Ernest Brown (National Liberal), formerly Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, to be Secretary of the Mines Department. Mr. Geoffry Shakespeare (National Liberal), formerly one of the Junior Lords of the Treasury, to be Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health. >. . Mr. James Blindell (National Liberal), to be Junior Lord of the Treasury, and Dr. Morris Jones (National Liberal), to be assistant. The office of assistant PostmasterGeneral remains to be filled.