Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Author:: Conrad, Johannes http://d-nb.info/gnd/118521853

Title:: Grundriss zum Studium der politischen Oekonomie

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1896-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1886437130

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-233012

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Author:: Hesse, Albert http://d-nb.info/gnd/13348551X

Title:: Volkswirtschaftspolitik

Volume count:: 2.1902

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Fischer

Year of publication:: 1902

Scope:: XVI, 544 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Abschnitt I. Die Land- und Forstwirtschaft

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cHAp. 111] TREATMENT OF NATIVE RACES 1067 carry out the wishes of the Governor; in the case of Natal the Governor had the abstract right to act, but with no adequate security that his wishes would be carried out by the officers in question. No doubt, strictly speaking, the officers of the Government as officers of the Crown were bound to obey the Governor, but for practical purposes theoretical obligations of that type are inadequate. At any rate, practice showed that the Governor made no effort or could make no effort to act independently of ministers, and both the report of the Native Affairs Commission and the authors of The Government of South Africa state, as a matter of fact, that the Governor acted on ministerial advice.! Indeed, so unsatisfactory was the conduct of the native affairs in Natal, according to a Royal Commission appointed in Natal, that it would be a poor compliment to assume that the result was due to the action of the Governor. The experience of Government in the Transvaal? and the Orange River Colony, where the Boer governments recognized no equality of white and coloured in church or state, was too short to allow of any opinion being expressed with con- fidence as to whether it would have developed in any definite direction. Tt is not known that any divergence of policy between the Governor and the ministers arose during the continuance of the position. In the case of the Union of South Africa there is, of course, no attempt to control the Union in native matters; the point was raised in Parliament on the debate on the South Africa Bill, only to be at once brushed aside by the Under- Secretary of State for the Colonies. It is clear that the Government of a new dominion must be assumed to be com- petent in such matters. It is, however, provided by s. 147 of the South Africa Act that the control and administration ' See The Government of South Africa, i. 133 (correcting i. 22), and clause vi of Royal Instructions, July 20, 1893. Cf. Parl. Pap., Cd. 3889, pp. 13 seq., where it is pointed out that the Parliament was an oligarchy as regards the natives, and a scheme of reform suggested. resulting in legisla- sion in 1909 (No. 1) and 1910 (No. 29). ¢ For the amelioration of conditions on annexation, see Parl. Pap., Cd. 714, 904.

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