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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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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Loo THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [pART II have in one or two cases while in office interested themselves in businesses connected with their Colonies. In one case at least in Western Australia the result was that the Governor of the Colony was sued in a public court with other persons as a guarantor of a scheme, and the case went against him Recently a dispatch from the Secretary of State has indicated the disadvantages of such procedure in the case of Governors and ex-Governors.2 § 5. CORRESPONDENCE RULES The rules as to correspondence have at times created a good deal of friction, but they now are settled on a reason- able basis? It is definitely decided that in all cases the Secretary of State will expect that representations from any person in a Dominion shall come to him through the Governor. It was argued with great heat by the redoubtable Sir George Grey, when he settled, after his retirement, in New Zealand, that he was entitled to address the Secretary of State directly, but the Secretary of State repudiated that view, which had indeed been bitterly opposed by Sir G. Grey himself when acted on by Imperial military officers during the war of 1862-70; and the Colonial Regulations contain the fixed rule that communications must be sent through the Governor on pain, if not so sent, of being sent back to him for a report. The Governor has no power to hold back a communication to the Secretary of State, but must send it on with such report as seems necessary ; if the matter relates to internal affairs, it will then be disposed of by referring the applicant to the Government with whose dis- cretion the question rests. All answers are invariably sent through the Governor, the only person in the Colony whom the Secretary of State ever addresses officially, though the Secretary to the Imperial Conference has been authorized since 1907-8 to correspond direct on minor matters with the ministers of the Dominions who constitute the Conference 4 © West Australian, October 5, 1899. * Parl. Pap., Cd. 3794 (1907). * Colonial Regulations, chap. iv. Cf. New Zealand Parl. Pap., 1880, A. 1, pp. 16-17,26; A. 2, pp. 9, 37, 48. ¢ Parl. Pap., Cd. 3795 (1908).

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