Mr. James Crerar's Promotion:
Two Commissions: Ambitions of Afghanistan's Ruler now Ocn Own Comesronoent Calcutta, June 18.
Sir Alexander Muddiman, the popular Home Member on the Executive Council of the Governor-General, having been appointed Governor of the United Provinces, the King has appointed Mr, James Crerar as Home Member in his Place, 'This appointment has come as no surprise, for it long: has been anticipated. Mr. Crevar, who was undergraduate at " Edinburgh' and: Oxford Universities, joined the. Indian Civil Service in 1900, hie rst appointment being Assistant Collector and Magistrate in Sind. From 1907 to 1911, he was As sistant Commissioner in Sind and at the end of the latter year he was gent to Bombay as Deputy Manicipal Commissioner. The following year he became Assistant: Political Agent in Kathiawar and during the time he held this post he wan special duty in connexion with Royal Commission, Between 1912, and 1914, he held various important posts, concluding the last-mentioned year with appointment as Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, a post: which he held till 1918, when he was appointed Additional Secretary to the Bombay Government in the: Political and Judicial Departments, receiving promotion in the follow. ing year to Secretary. In 1922, he went to the Government of India as officiating Home Secretary and was confirmed in that appointment 1923, Last year, during Sir Alexander Muddiman's absence on leave, Mr. Crerar officiated a3} Home Member,
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