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governor-general

Representative of the British government in a Commonwealth country that regards the British sovereign as head of state. The first Commonwealth country to receive such a representative was Canada in 1929. In almost all Commonwealth countries the governor-general is now a citizen of that country.

The governor-general was described by the Imperial Conference of 1926 as the ‘representative of the Crown, holding in all essential respects the same position in relation to the administration of public affairs in the dominion as is held by His Majesty the King in Great Britain, and ... not the representative or agent of His Majesty's Government in Great Britain or of any department of that government’. The procedure for the appointment of governor-generals was laid down by the Imperial Conference of 1930. As the governor-general ceased to be the channel of communication between government and government, consideration was given to the representation of the British government in the dominions. The solution was the creation of a position of high commissioner to correspond with the dominion high commissioners in London.



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The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger portion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra.
He described the balls at Government House, and the manner in which they kept themselves cool in the hot weather, with punkahs, tatties, and other contrivances; and he was very witty regarding the number of Scotchmen whom Lord Minto, the Governor-General, patronised; and then he described a tiger-hunt; and the manner in which the mahout of his elephant had been pulled off his seat by one of the infuriated animals.
The day after his arrival he was driving back from calling on the governor-general.
 
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