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Since 1923 Government House, Capetown, comfortable home of the Governor General of the Union of South Africa, has been occupied by Queen Mary's amiable younger brother. Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Earl of Athlone. In 1928 at the earnest request of Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog, alive to the advantage of near royalty in Capetown, his term was extended for another three years. Last week His Majesty the King-Emperor was graciously pleased to appoint as his brother-in-law's successor George Herbert Hyde Villiers, Earl of Clarendon, his appointment to become effective in 1931.
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