IMPERIAL RELATIONS.
A NEW DEVELOPMENT. HIGH COMMISSIONER IN CANADA (TKOM OTTB OWX COaEISPONBENT.) LONDON, April 27. A new step has now been taken in Imperial relations. It has been officially announced that Sir William H. Clark', K.C.5.1., Comptroller-General of the Department of Overseas Trade, has been appointed High Commissioner in Canada for his Majesty's Government in Great Britain. Sir William will go to Ottawa as soon as the. necessary arrangements have been completed. Sir Edward T. F. Crowe, C.M.G., has been appointed Comptroller-Gene-ral of the Department of Overseas Trade. Mr Peter Larkin, High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom since 1922, said in an interview: "The Hbme Government has had no representative in Canada, for the Gov-ernor-General, who was the representative of Great Britain, how represents not the Government but the King." Sir William Clark, who is 52, was private secretary to Mr Lloyd Georg* at the Board of Trade in 1906 and again when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1908 to .1910. From 1910 to 1916 Sir William was Member for Commerce and Industry of the Council of the Viceroy of India.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19332, 9 June 1928, Page 11
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