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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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

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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CHAP. 1] THE GOVERNOR 97 who was appointed to be Governor of South Australia. The salary was reduced before he actually took up office, but there had been notice given of the possibility of reduction, and though Mr. Chamberlain informed Sir F. Buxton that he was entitled to withdraw his acceptance of office he declined to avail himself of the permission. Again, during the financial difficulties in Queensland during the drought a deduction was made from all official salaries : the Gover- nor’s salary was left untouched, but Sir Herbert Chermside generously surrendered a proportional part of his own free will until times should improve. As a matter of fact, how- ever, the amount of the salary is comparatively unimportant compared with the question of allowances: for example, the official salary of the Governor of Victoria is £5,000, but no staff is provided; that of the Governor of South Australia is fixed at £4,000, but practically nothing else is paid, and he must, in addition to paying income tax, provide himself with a staff at his own expense, an attempt to increase the allow- ances failing in 1910. Or again, the Governor of Tasmania receives only £2,500 and an allowance of £250 for a private secretary, and the Labour party defeated an attempt in 1910 to grant an extra £500 for travelling. The practice as to upkeep of house and grounds varies very much from place to place and from ministry to ministry.2 In the case of Canada the salary and large allowances have been sufficient to uphold the dignity of the office, and since an attempt in the very early days of responsible government in the Dominion there has been no serious project of reduction.’ In the Commonwealth the attempt to secure in 1902 an increase of salary by way of an entertainment allowance for Lord Hopetoun resulted in the refusal of the Commonwealth ! See Parl. Pap., C. 7910 (1895). * New South Wales is particularly generous, Vietoria much less so, as a result of the presence there of the Federal Government. Western Australia in 1010 increased the Governor's allowances. For South Australia, see House of Assembly Debates, 1910, p. 601; for Tasmania. Mercury, Nov. 1, 1910; for Queensland, Debates, cii. 209 seq. ¢ Canada Sess. Pap., 1869, No. 73; Pope, Sir John Macdonald, ii. 15. The attempt lost Canada Lord Mayo as a Viceroy. 1279 TT

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