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. VIII] THE CIVIL SERVICE 351 Assistant-Postmaster an administrative one, still that does not interfere with the general principle, and the creation of a few posts exempt from Civil Service conditions of entry is not common, and has very recent and not very clearly justified precedents in England. It cannot be said in Australia any more than in this country, that the difficulty of resisting the demands of civil servants when they exist in large bodies has been successfully met. In the case of the railways, the difficulties of the Civil Service plus the question of the pressureof the public as regards railway rates, has led to the entrusting of the railways to com- missioners, who hold for a term of years by a statutory tenure and can only be removed by Parliament. A commission was set up first in Victoria in 1884, then by South Australia in 1887, then by New South Wales and Queensland in 1888, and finally, after a strike which brought about the resignation of the general manager, by Western Australia in 1902. The original commissions consisted of three members save in Western Australia, but there were difficulties and friction, so that the number is now only onein Queensland ; of the three in New South Wales one has, since 1906, authority over the other two; and in South Australia there is one who is advised by a board of three, the engineer-in-chief, general traffic manager, and the locomotive engineer, and in cases of difference between him and the board the minister must decide. In Victoria, after several years’ trial of a single control, three commissioners were appointed in 1903 after the railway strike of that year. The strike resulted also in the extraordinary device of dis- franchising for the ordinary constituencies the railwaymen and other civil servants, and in requiring them to vote for members of their own,! an arrangement which was changed in 1906, when the old system was re-introduced. 1 See Act No. 1864, ss. 25-9; one member was elected to the Council by both sets of men, and one by each set separately for the Assembly, and members of the Service were eligible as members. The provisions were repealed by Act No. 2075. For the Civil Service in New South Wales, see the Acts of 1902 as amended by Act No. 25 of 1910. See for further information the Commonwealth ¥ ear Book, and for the railways, The Govern. ment of South Africa, ii. 131-8; for New Zealand, the Official Year Book.

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