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

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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186 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [pART II in the leadership of the party, asked for a dissolution on the ground that it was desirable to test the feeling of the country on the principles of direct taxation and a change of relations between the Houses. The Governor declined, as the House had been elected under their auspices, there was no clear line of division in the country on the topics suggested by the Government as being ripe for settlement, and there was no real prospect of any dissolution resulting in a clear verdict for a policy rather than for persons.! In South Australia in 1871 the Governor accorded a disso- tution to ministers on their being defeated in the Assembly by the casting vote of the Speaker, though both Houses passed addresses asking him not to dissolve ; his action was clearly correct in the case of so close an issue, as a Ministry formed without a dissolution could not have had any stability.2 New Zealand, as usual, presents interesting features. In 1872 the Governor, Sir G. Bowen, declined to grant the Stafford Ministry a dissolution, because he saw no prospect of any result from such a dissolution, and he asked that the Government should be constructed on a wider basis, which was accomplished by the formation of an administration on October 11 under Mr. Waterhouse. But he quarrelled with Mr. Vogel and retired in March 1873; his successor, Mr. Fox, resigned after a month of office, but happily Mr. Vogel was successful in keeping a majority together for a time.? In 1877 the Grey Liberal Ministry asked the Governor, Lord Normanby, for a dissolution, because, having taken office in October on the defeat of their predecessors under Major Atkinson on a vote of confidence, they would have been defeated in the House before they had time to develop their policy, but for the casting vote ‘of the Speaker. They ' Tasmania Legislative Council Journals, 1879, No. 66; Rusden, op. cit., iii. 481. * South Australia Legislative Council Journals, 1871, p. 65; House of Assembly Journals, 1871, pp. 235, 237. * New Zealand Parl, Pap., 1873, A. 1, pp. 7-20; Rusden, New Zealand, iii. 38 seq. He retired in 1876 on his appointment as Agent-General, and was succeeded by Major Atkinson.

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