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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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36 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [part II although there has been no official correspondence with Canada on this question, I have been informed that the Dominion Government are decidedly of opinion that the appointment of a Governor-General should be made without any reference to the responsible Ministers. Her Majesty’s Government have read with attention the debates in the Colonial Parliaments, and without referring in detail to those discussions it may suffice for me to say generally that the fuller reports of them have confirmed the opinion which Her Majesty’s Government had been led to form after considering the information previously received by telegraph, namely, that the expediency of making any constitutional change in the mode of appointing the Governor of an Australian Colony has not been established. They believe, in fact, that the objections stated in the letter ad- dressed on November 15th last to the Agent-General for South Australia, a copy of which is annexed for convenience of reference, greatly outweigh the advantage which they might in some cases derive from a knowledge of the opinion of the gentlemen at the time serving as Colonial Ministers. Her Majesty’s Government feel that they are justified in claiming, for themselves as well as for their predecessors, that a remarkable measure of Success, both as regards the capacity and character of the Governors appointed, and as regards the approval with which those appointments have been received in the Colonies, has attended the sincere endeavours which have at all times been made to secure the best possible selection in each case. They desire at the same time to point out the difficulties which might arise if the area of selection were absolutely limited, as has been suggested, to persons who have held high political office in England, or have been members of the Imperial Parliament. Such persons are frequently not prepared to retire from s, promising public career at home in order to serve out of England for a term of years, and it is worthy of observation that the suggested limitation would have excluded almost all of the most successful Australasian Governors. It appears, indeed, to be. necessary on every ground that Her Majesty’s Government should conduct, without assistance from the Colony, the confidential negotiations preliminary to the selection of a Governor, while they could not invite a person so selected by them to allow his name to be submitted for the approval of gentlemen at a distance, to whom (though well and favourably known here) he may be altogether unknown.

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