THE NEW GOVERNMENT.
FURTHER APPOINTMENTS. "United Press Association— By El»ctri« Telegraph— Copyiigkt. ( (Received April 15, 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 14. Mr Asquith has completed his Go* vernment with the exception of one ep*\ pointment, that of UndeT-Seorej»ry fof j the Colonies, in succession to Mr Winwj ston Churchill. The Right Hon EdiJ mund Rohertspn, Secretary to the Adi. miralty in the late Government, and? Mr Thomas Lough, Secretary to th«T Board of Education, will retire, the lat*l" ter heing created a Privy Councillor*, j Mr Thomas M'Kinnon Wood, mem* 1 ber for the St Rollox Division of Gla*>' gow, has been appointed Secretary W the Boa«J of Education, in successions 1 to Mr Lough, and Dr T. J. Macnamara, f Secretary to the Local Government 1 ' Board in Sir Henry Campbell-Banner- i man's Ministry, becomes Secretary to. the Admiralty in place of Mr Edmund: Robertson. j Mr C. F. G. Masterman, member fotfi West Ham, well known as a brilliant author and journalist, replaces Dr Macnamara as Secretary to the Local Government Board, and Mr C. E. H. Hobhouse, Under-Secretary for India' in the late Government, becomes Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in suo», cession to Mr Walter Runciman, who has been promoted to Cabinet rank, a» President of the Board of Education. •
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9212, 15 April 1908, Page 2
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