Part of Oral Answers to Questions — African Colonies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 March 1947.
Sir Waldron Smithers
, Orpington
12:00,
12 March 1947
asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the name and qualifications for the post of the railway worker who has been appointed to the Labour Department of the Government of Kenya.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
