Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

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Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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34 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART 1 of civil servants to appeal to the Secretary of State. But the Bill still insisted on the powers of the Supreme Chief being exercised on the advice of the Executive Council. Sir John Robinson and Mr. G. M. (afterwards Sir George) Sutton were sent home on a deputation to urge the accep- tance of the Bill on the home authorities! but the Imperial Government stood firm, and the Bill was modified in some particulars, and especially so as to leave out all claim of the Colonial Government to control the Supreme Chief in his action. At the same time, the delegates were informed that the Governor would be instructed to discuss his proposed actions with them and to secure their concurrence if possible, and it was anticipated that agreement would be usually the case. The Bill so amended was laid before the Legislative Council, and the Council then dissolved, the elections re- sulting in the return of ten members in favour of and fourteen against responsible government. But four of the members were unseated on an election petition, and first two and then two more members in favour of responsible government were returned; the Bill as amended by the Imperial Government became law as Act No. 14 of 1893, and responsible government was inaugurated. It has often been contended that the grant of responsible government to Natal was premature and unwise, and there is no doubt that the small size of the Colony, the paucity of the white population, which was even then vastly outnumbered by the native population, and the presence in the Colony of a large number of natives of India whose industry was essential for the development of the Colony, but whose presence was, on many grounds, not very acceptable when their indentures expired and they settled there, combined to render the experiment a difficult one, and one which certainly never led to the same satisfactory results as were manifested elsewhere in the Empire. But the grant can be justified on the ground that it was practically an essential preliminary to the possibility of the Colony joining a con- ! Parl. Pap., C. 7013, pp. 39 seq. * Ibid., pp. 41 seq.

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