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I NZPA-Reuter Adelaide ! Pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls, aged 70, the first Australian Aborigine to become a state governor, has re--signed because of ill health after having been in office (for five months. ( This resignation as from ( April 30 was announced! I on Sunday by the South Aus-1 tralian Premier (Mr Don; Dunstan) and the governor’s 1 secretary, Mr John White. | Mr Dunstan said the. Queen had accepted the res-; ignation. , Sir Douglas, who has been suffering from the effects of a mild stroke since last January, was not in Adelaide; Tor the announcement. I
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