6 DECEMBER 1930, Page 2

• • • * The South African Appointment A statement

made by General Hertzog on his return to Cape Town throws a good deal of light on the appoint- ment of Sir Herbert Stanley as High Commissioner for Native Territories. He admitted that he would have preferred that the Governor-General should continue to discharge the functions of High Commissioner. It is evident, therefore, that the Imperial Government, being unable to associate the Governor-General with any political work and being doubtful of the native policy of the present South African Government, purposely pro- vided that the administration of native affairs in the

Protectorates should be safeguarded, for the present at any rate, by the appointment of an Imperial repre-

sentative.