SIR HERBERT STANLEY
APPOINTMENT TO AFRICA. • OBJECT STATED IN PARLIAMENT. (British Official Wireless.) ..(United Press Association.)’ ’ (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, November 26. Mr J. H. Thomas (Dominions Secretary) 1 stated in the House of Commons that Sir Herbert Stanley would take up his new appointment as High Commissioner in South Africa next April. The object of the appointment was to meet the changed position of the Governor-General, following upon the decisions of the Imperial Conference. Mr . Thomas said -the British Government was responsible for the native policy in Basutoland,'the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland, and for certain supervisory functions iu relation to native affairs in Southern Rhodesia. The Governor-General would,not now he responsible to the Dominions Minister, and it -was essential that the control of the native policy must be in the hands of someone who was directly responsible to him.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21196, 29 November 1930, Page 14
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