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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ouaP. 111] TREATMENT OF NATIVE RACES 1063 in the habit of stealing and killing the cattle of the settlers ; to the settlers this meant ruin, and this position was serious for the individual settler. If, therefore, his conduct towards the native was often absolutely inexcusable, it must be realized that he was in a difficult position, and that he often seemed to have no option between allowing himself to be ruined or punishing the natives in the most brutal manner, and he might rest fairly secure that whatever action he did would be condoned or made little of by a jury of his neighbours, who, like himself, were exposed to native depredations. The Native Department as constituted did not work satisfactorily. The Governor, indeed, had full control of it, and a sum of £5,000 was placed at his absolute disposal for the benefit of the natives. The sum was wholly inadequate if anything substantial were to be done for them. If nothing substantial were to be done it was hardly worth while making provision. Moreover, the Government resented the condemnation of their authority, and took care not to s0-operate with the proposals of the Governor. The position was always unsatisfactory, as creating the feeling by the Government that they were not wholly in the confidence of the Governor, and they alleged that the division of authority was as injurious to the natives and the aborigines as it was inconvenient and derogatory to the dignity of the Colonial Qovernment. An Act (No. 37) to amend the Constitution in this regard, brought in in 1894, was reserved and did not receive the royal assent. At last Sir John Forrest, in 1897, on the occasion of the Colonial Conference of that year, in- duced the Secretary of State for the Colonies to consent that the Department should cease to remain independent of the Colonial Government and it should fall under that control in the ordinary way! It was urged by Sir John Forrest among other things that the feeling in the Colony was * See Parl, Pap., C. 8350. The Act of 1897 (No. 5) was not duly pro- slaimed when assented to under the Act of 1842, and so it was re-enacted with modification in 1905 (No. 14), and this Act—on the whole excellent — has been amended in 1911 (No. 43).

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