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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36 RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART 1 members of the existing Legislative Council should be replaced by an official nominee and three elective members, and that two unofficial members should be added to the Executive Council as in the case of Natal. On the grant of self-government the northern part of the Colony should be made a separate Colony under a Lieutenant-Governor. The question was again referred to by the Governor in a dispatch of November 18, 1886, when he was told in reply 2 that he should make it clear that the Imperial Government would not be prepared to surrender to so small a population the control of all the land in Western Australia. On July 12, 1887,% the Governor reported a resolution passed by the Legislative Council in favour of responsible government. He defended the view, and gave reasons for holding that the Colony should not be divided as was suggested. The population of the northern districts had rapidly increased through the rush to the Kimberley goldfields, the people there were accustomed to self-government in the eastern provinces, and nothing less was at all likely to satisfy their demands. He recommended that provision be made for the natives by retaining the aborigines protection board which was instituted in 1886 under the sole control of the Governor, who should be entrusted with £6,000 a year for the benefit of the aborigines, and should control the protec- tors of natives and witnesses to native labour contracts. He recommended a nominee council, to be turned after a brief period into an elective body, and made suggestions for the Lower House being empowered to pass Bills over the head of the Legislative Council, after a delay of eight months, by a two-thirds majority, while on the other hand tacking should be forbidden. In a reply by dispatch on December 12, 1887, Sir H. Holland explained the views of the Imperial Government : they thought that they could not surrender the territory north of the Murchison River to the responsible government which they were prepared to see established ; in the northern territory the lands must be retained in the hands ! Parl. Pap., C. 5743, p. 11. ? Ibid. Ibid, p. 12. ! Ibid., pp. 23 seq.

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