THE DOMINIONS OFFICE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20092, 22 November 1930, Page 15

THE DOMINIONS OFFICE.

NEW POST CREATED.

COMMISSIONER IN AFRICA

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —BS ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYKIGHT.) (Received November 21st, 8 p.m.) LONDON, November 20. The Dominions Office announces that with a view to further development of the system of communication between the Governments, it has been decided to establish a post of High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in South Africa. The appointment is comparable with that heid in Canada by Sir William Clark.

The new post will be combined with the existing post of High Commissioner for South Africa which the Earl of Atlilone (who is also Governor-General) is shortly relinquishing. Sir Herbert Stanley, who at present is Governor and Commander-in-Chief at Ceylon, will be appointed to the dual post. He will remain in Ceylon until February. [Sir Herbert Stanley, who is now 58 years of age, was educated at Eton and Oxford. Between 1897 and 1902 he was private secretary to the British Minister at Dresden and Coburg, and later was British Vice-Consul at Dresden. From 1906 to 1908 he was assistant private' secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty. Then lie became successively private secretary to the Lord President of the Council, secretary to the Governor-General of South Africa, Resident Commissioner in Southern and Northern Rhodesia, Imperial Secretary of South Africa, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Northern Rhodesia. He was knighted in 1924.]