Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter III. The treatment of native races

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1060 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [part Vv with the land policy of the New Zealand Government, on the ground that they are under the direct sovereignty of the King, which they accepted by the Treaty of 1842. These petitions have from time to time been answered, as in 1908, by a statement that the matter is essentially one for the Government of New Zealand, which may be trusted to secure the rights and interests of the Maori population. Indeed, the presence of Maori members in both Houses and on the Executive Council appears to have solved, in a particularly ideal manner, the difficulties inherent in the management of natives.! It is, too, fortunate that the Maori people are singularly courageous, and so in the early days won the respect of the white colonists, and at the same time capable of intellectual advancement, so that there never has been substantial difficulty in securing Maoris or semi-Maoris to be members of the Executive Council of the Dominion. New Zealand has dependencies in the shape of the Cook [slands.? These islands are of course subject to the general legislative power of the Parliament of New Zealand, but they possess also in themselves a Federal Parliament for the Cook Islands, created by an Act of 1901, and several native Councils. The construction of the Island Councils was altered in 1904, and each Council now consists of nine mem- bers, the Resident Agent of Government being ex officio member and President, the Arikis being ex officio members, and the remaining members being elected by the adult natives of the Islands for a term not exceeding three years. The Federal Council enacts laws for all the Islands except Niue, while each Island Council can make Ordinances. No Ordinance has the force of law until assented to by the Governor, and the Governor, by Order in Council, can direct that anv of the laws in force in the Islands at the * The Constitution of 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 103), which never took effect, would have excluded Maoris de facto from the franchise, and that of 1852 left the position unsatisfactory. The present system of separate representation is clearly satisfactory to all concerned. * See New Zealand Official Year Book for an annual account of the progress of the islands : Consolidated Statutes, 1908, No. 28.

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