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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CHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 41 action on the matter. The Council assured him of sympathy and support, while asking that responsible government should be granted, and the House of Representatives, though at first less conciliatory, agreed ultimately to pass the necessary votes of supply on the understanding that, pending the receipt of the decision of the Secretary of State, the existing members only should constitute the Executive Council, and no attempt should be made to confuse the posi- tion of the old members of a Crown Colony Executive with the members of an executive which rested on parliamentary Support.t The decision of the Secretary of State was conveyed in a dispatch of December 8, 1854,% in which he informed the Administrator that Her Majesty’s Government had no desire whatever to offer opposition tothe establishment of thesystem known as responsible government in New Zealand, and had no reason to doubt that it would prove the best adapted for developing the interests as well as satisfying the wishes of the community, and the only terms which they had to make was the condition accepted by the General Assembly of making fair provision for the officers affected by the new arrangement, who had had a reasonable right to expect that their posts would be permanent, and who under the new system would be liable to retire on political grounds. Ac- cordingly the principle was to be applied forthwith, and steps were taken to appoint a government of ministers, pensions being provided for the former members of the Executive Council. § 5. RESPONSIBLE (GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA In the case of the Cape of Good Hope the question was inaugurated by Lord Carnarvon in a dispatch to Sir P. Wodehouse of January 26, 1867.3 in which he announced that the Imperial Government had decided that the burden of military expenditure in respect of the Colony must be assumed by the Colonial Government. The principle of : Parl. Pap., H. C. 160, 1855, pp. 9 seq. * Ibid, p. 39. ag H. C. 181. 1870, p. 1. Representative government dated from

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