NEW GOVERNORS
HONG KONG AND SOUTH AFRICA POSTS
VICE REGAL TRANSFERS British Official T Tireless RUGBY, Wednesday. The Earl of Clarendon has been appointed Governor-General of South Africa in succession to the Earl of Athlone, whose extended period of office will expire in January, 1931. Sir William Peel, Chief ' Secretary, to the Government of the Federated Malay States, has been appointed governor and commander-in-chief of Hong-Kong, in succession to Sir Cecil Clementi.
George Herbert Hyde Villiers, sixth Earl of Clarendon, Governor-General-designate of South Africa, spent many years in Canada. In 1924 he was made Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Dominions, ttnd in addition chairman of tlio Oversea Settlement Committee. He revisited Canada in 1926, and spent three months there studying the progress of the family settlement scheme. When the earl re turned to England in °A° ber ’ 1 026 ’ the Government was about to tak© over tli© control of wireless broadcasting in Britain, and was forming the British Broadcasting Corporation. He was offered, the chairmanship, and. resigning his Dominions post, accepted it. On th© conclusion ot th© arrangements for the formation of the Imperial Communications Company, to tak© over control of the chief wireless and cable concerns of the T^ i P Lre ’ TVas announced in Januarv, 19-9, that Earl Clarendon had been appointed a director.
William Peel, Governor-designate ot Hong-Kong, was Resident Councillor at Penang in 1926, when he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Government of the Federated Malay States in succession to Sir William G. Maxwell In July, 1918, he became* president of th© Municipal Commissioners, Singapore, and in May, 1919 Food Controller for Malaya. From November, 1920, to April, 1922 he served as Controller of Labour, Federated Malay States and Straits Settlements, and thereafter as British ResiL°„A he Kedah Government until 19-5, when he was appointed Resident Councillor at Penarg.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 9
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