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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cHAP. 111] TREATMENT OF NATIVE RACES 1071 These provisions therefore make the final authority of sdministration the Executive Government of the Union, and t seems impossible to deny that the Executive Government must inevitably in the long run be responsible for native policy, and any attempt to deprive it of such responsibility would be fatal to the efficient working of the Union. At the same time, it is obviously necessary—and the fact was accepted both by the South Africa Native Affairs Commis- sion! and the Natal Native Affairs Commission >—that permanency in native policy should be attained, and this could hardly be secured in the change of political govern- ments. The element of continuity is secured by the appoint- ment of this permanent Commission, which must naturally attain great influence by its knowledge and by its right of being consulted, and it may be hoped that the new experi- ment, when actually tried, will be more successful than any previous experiments in South Africa have been. Hitherto attempts have been made in Natal, the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony * to give the Governor an inde- pendent position with regard to native matters, while the Imperial Government has retained the sole control of the Protectorates and Basutoland. It is clear that for the full development of South Africa the Protectorates and Basuto- land must ultimately fall to the Union Government, and it is equally clear that fitful efforts to preserve the independent control by the Governor of native affairs cannot ultimately produce any good results. As we have seen, the Aborigines Protection Board of Western Australia, which at one time it was proposed to keep independent of the Colonial Government, was abolished in 1897, after it had worked unsatisfactorily and with much friction for seven years, and it was not proposed to make any similar attempt in South Africa, since in the case of + Cf. Parl. Pap., Cd. 2399, p. 31. * Ibid., Cd. 3889, p. 15. The Commission here recommended a Council 0 advise the Governor, and one was set up by Act No. 1 of 1909, ' Letters Patent, December 6, 1906, s. 51. ! Letters Patent, June 5. 1907, s. 52. The powers conferred are very 7aoue,

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