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An Agent-General is the representative in the United Kingdom of the government of a Canadian Province or an Australian State and, historically, also of a British colony in Jamaica, Nigeria, Canada, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand and subsequently, of a Nigerian Region. Australia and Canada's federal governments were represented by High Commissions, as are all Commonwealth national governments today. Starting in 1886 Canadian provinces and the federal government also appointed agents general to Paris. The first, Hector Fabre, was dispatched by the province of Quebec but was asked by the federal government to represent all of Canada. He and his successor, Philippe Roy, continued to represent both Quebec City and Ottawa in France until 1912 when the federal government asked Roy to resign his Quebec position to avoid conflicts of interest. Following a military coup in Nigeria in 1966, the federal system was abolished, and the posts of the Agent-General of Nigerian Regions in London were subsumed in the Nigerian High Commission. By the 1990s, some Australian state governments regarded the office of their Agent-General in London as a costly anachronism, even for promoting tourism and investment, and have since been closed and subsumed into the Australian High Commission, see List of High Commissioners of Australia to the United Kingdom. The majority of Australian States continue to have Agents General in London, but operate from Australia House rather than maintain separate premises. Many Canadian provinces similarly are no longer represented by an Agent-General, although Quebec has a Government Office (Délégation Générale du Québec à Londres) in London and Ontario has a representative who works out of the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC.〔http://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2013/08/ontario-appoints-new-representative-in-washington.html〕 ==List of Agents-General for New South Wales== The New South Wales Office in London was one of several overseas offices established to represent the states' interests in London. The London Office was established after the appointment of the first Agent-General on 1 May 1787. After 1932, the Agent-General's Office was abolished and replaced by the New South Wales Government Offices, London. The Agent-General's Office was re-established in 1937. In September 1992, the position of NSW Agent-General in London was abolished by the Fahey government. It was replaced by the NSW Government Trade and Investment Office, London, which had no diplomatic function, but focussed on the promotion of investment and trade in the UK and Europe. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Agent-General」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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