Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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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:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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1252 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PARTYV of independence with regard to questions of native policy, on the ground that the country was not yet in a position to afford to pay for military operations. The Governor, shortly after his arrival in the Colony and his taking up office, decided that with regard to native affairs he would reverse the policy which had been determined upon in 1856, when responsible government became effective, and would in native affairs, as in other matters, rest on the advice of his ministers ;* but there can be little doubt that he intended to guide his ministers rather than be guided by them. On the other hand, the Imperial Government were anxious to accept the arrangements by which they were relieved from the responsibility of conducting native affairs, a responsibility which, as the Governor pointed out, was andesirable, as the Governor had no adequate authority to carry it into effect, being destitute alike of sufficient executive officers and of any substantial pecuniary resources? over which he could exercise control independent of his ministers. At the same time the Imperial Government held that, if the control of native affairs were to be exercised by the Colonial Government—as had been the desire of the Colonial Govern- ment—it must undertake the responsibilities entailed by such policy both pecuniarily and in point of control, and they wished, therefore, to withdraw as soon as possible from New Zealand the Imperial troops which, to the number of over five regiments, were being maintained there in the main at the cost of the Imperial Government, for the Colonial Govern- ment contributed only a nominal sum, £5 a head, towards the cost of the forces, and were excused the actual payment of that sum on the understanding that they would spend the money thus saved on the native administration 3 The numbers of the natives were so small, and of those in arms—never over 2,000, it is believed—so utterly incom- ' See his dispatch, November 30, 1861 ; Parl. Pap., August 1862, p. 27, and the Secretary of State’s reply, ibid., p. 80, and H. C. 467, 1863, p. 134. * A sum of £7,000 secured by the Act of 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 72) was ntterly inadequate and had to be supplemented by the Parliament. * Cf. Parl. Pap., June 26, 1866, pp. 57 seq.; C. 83, pp. 1 seq., 79 seq., 05 seq., 187 seq., 195 seq. ;: Rusden. New Zealand. ii. 78. 87.

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