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-

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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

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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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cHaAP. 111] TREATMENT OF NATIVE RACES 1065 brought up to better prospects than those of the native method, and to enable the Government to increase the areas set apart as reserves beyond 2,000 acres. The Act also forbids a native to plead guilty of any offence without the sanction of the Protector, a necessary precaution, as the native is anxious to please. The expenditure on the aborigines in Western Australia, which was £15,125 in 1906, was raised to £17,949 in 1908, while the total expenditure in 1906 for the whole of the Commonwealth was over £56,000, and now exceeds £63,000. The Commonwealth itself possesses, in Papua, a large area of which the population is and must be mainly native. The administration of Papua and the legislation is conducted on the approved Imperial models. Efforts to induce the permission of compulsory labour, whether directly or in- directly, have failed, and the declared policy of the Common- wealth is to develop Papua with all due regard to the interests of the native race. It has, accordingly, declined to sanction proposals mooted from time to time for systems of compulsory labour, and has refused to sanction the importation of inden- tured coolies, which has been tried successfully in Fiji, but which has in its view tended to diminish the prospect of the successful advancement of the native race. Geographically more connected with New Zealand, Norfolk Island is a quasi native community derived from Pitcairn, and is now ruled by the Governor of New South Wales, who is allowed by his Ministers a free hand. He has full legislative authority by virtue of an Order in Council under an Imperial Act of 1856. Ultimately, transfer to the Commonwealth seems desirable if it can be accompanied by free access to Commonwealth markets, which is denied on the ‘ White Australia’ policy to products grown by native labour in Papua. ‘ For native labour, cf. two reports presented to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1910, Nos. 60 and 63, and see the Handbook of Papua; Parl. Pap., 1909, No. 76; 1910, Nos. 14 and 74. * See Parl. Pap., C. 4583, 4193, 4842, 8358 (transfer to New South Wales : ouriously enough, the Ministry seem to have allowed the Governor to do what he likes) ; above, p. 914, n. 1; Denison, Viceregal Life, i. 337 seq.

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