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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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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cmap. vii] CABINET SYSTEM IN DOMINIONS 341 London in 1910! and the recognition accorded them by the late King’s desire on various formal occasions, and by order of the present King at the royal funeral in 1910, at the state opening of the Parliament, and at the Coronation of 1911. The Australian Agents-Generalatone time showed consider- able political activity in accordance with the suggestion of Sir J. Vogel, who thought that friction and fear of personal Government might thus be avoided, possibly a reference to Sir George Grey’s quarrels with Lord Normanby, and the latter’s vigorous measures to keep him in order. At any rate they on occasion appeared as forming 2 Council to express the views of the several Colonies : thus they attended on the Secretary of State to ask him to sanction the Divorce Act of Victoria, passed in 1889,% and they united in recom- mendations of the adoption of the principle of allowing the Colonies to know the names of proposed Governors before the final selection was made,? and they constantly pressed on the Colonial Office the question of the Western Pacific. They also appeared at the Colonial Conference of 1887 to represent their Governments along with other persons of distinction. In 1892 the Agent-General of New Zealand supported ministers’ views against Lord Glasgow.* But their political energy was limited and «till is limited by several essential facts : the Governor as the King’s representative is clearly the proper person through whom any important communica- tion should come. Thus the Secretary of State, in the case of the request from Queensland not to appoint Sir H. Blake, preferred to deal with the officer administering the Govern- ment and not with the Agent-General. Or again, in 1892, when the Agent-General for New Zealand called on the Secretary of State to endeavour to induce him to support the Ministry against the Governor, the Secretary of State gave the Governor instructions a day before the Agent- General was informed, so that the Governor could make his own arrangements with ministers instead of their learning 1 Lord Strathcona’s personal rank as a peer naturally satisfied for long the desires of Canada. . ¢ Parl. Pap., C. 6006 (1890). 2 parl. Pap., C. 5828 (1889). + Parl. Pap., H. C. 198, 1893-4.

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