South A ash alia, sixteen times as big ns England, has a population onlv enual to that of Leeds. Sir Laming Worthington Evans, M.P., who has been appointed Financial Secretary to the -Ministry of Munitions, entered the House of Commons as member for Colchester in 1910. and speedily made a- Parliamentary reputation by his work in connection with the Insurance Bill, which Mu- Lloyd George agreed would have, been improved by the adoption of more of his suggestions. In the early months of the war he noted as Inspector of Administrative Services, with the rank of major, and in 1910 he was appointed Controller of the then. newly-created Foreign Trade .Department of the Foreign Office, and one of the. Parliamentary Secretaries of the Ministry of Munitions. He is a solicitor, but has retired from the active practice of his profession. He was made a baronet m 1910.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12284, 5 April 1918, Page 7
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