NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER
APPOINTMENT TO CANADA (Received May 17, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY, May 16 Sir Gerald Campbell, K.C.M.G., who has been since 1931 British ConsulGeneral in New York, has been selected as High Commissioner in Canada, succeeding Sir Francis Floud.
Sir Gerald Campbell, who entered the Consular Service in 1906, served at Rio de Janeiro in 1906 and in the Congo State from 1908 to 1911. ViceConsul at Venice in 1913, he was promoted to Consul and transferred to Addis Ababa in 1915, where he remained during the civil war caused by the attempt of the Emperor Lij Yasu to win Abyssinia to espouse the cause of Germany and Turkey, and twice acted as Charge d'Affaires. In 1920 he was promoted to be Consul-General at Philadelphia, and was transferred to San Francisco in 1922.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23040, 18 May 1938, Page 13
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