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SOUTH AFRICAN ERROR THE WRONG KING GEORGE (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, August 30 The latest protest of the Nationalist Party in South Africa aigainst “injustice” is based on the fact that new Government maps show the famous Aughrabies Falls on the Orange River marked as “The Cataract of King George,” states the Evening Standard’s Capetown correspondent. The Nationalists maintain that it was derogatory to South Africa’s status to pander to Downing Street by giving the falls this new name. Their protests have been silenced. The map-makers have pointed out that the name of “The Cataract of King George” was given to the falls by their discoverer, Mr George Thompson, a Capetown merchant, who supplied this name in 1824, in honour of King George JV.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20916, 22 September 1939, Page 5
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127UNFOUNDED PROTEST Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20916, 22 September 1939, Page 5
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