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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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

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1302 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V the Federal Government, and therefore honours for men of distinction in the provinces must be recommended by the Governor-General, while in Australia the State Governments have always claimed that the honours must be recommended by the State Governors, and that they should not be in any way subject to the concurrence of the Governor-General. On the other hand, it has been contended that it is essential that the Crown should have the advice of its principle representative in the Commonwealth, so as to be in a position bo weigh the respective claims of the various candidates put forward by State Governors, and stress is laid on the fact that the recommendations of the State Governors are not as has been thought in the states, submitted in any way to the approval of the Commonwealth Government. But it is natural for the State Governments to feel that the Governor- General must be influenced by federal opinion in forming his judgement of the merits of individuals, of whom in many cases in the remoter states he can have not the slightest personal knowledge, and it is clear that dissatisfaction in Australia is by no means yet a matter of the past! The {federal Labour Ministry declines to propose honours. The honours which are conferred, are, as a rule, the Privy Councillorships,* which have been conferred on the Premiers present at the Conferences of 19022 1907 and 1911, and occasionally on other persons, as, for example, on the Chief Justice of South Australia, Sir Samuel Way, when he was made in 1897 a member of the Privy Council and a member * See Harrison Moore, Commonwealth of Australia,” p. 350. The states were not consulted when the style of Lord Mayor was conferred upon the Mayors of Sydney and Melbourne. In 1911, on the other hand, the Commonwealth and State supported the request of Adelaide for the title, which was, however, refused; Canadian Gazette. 1vii. 498: Adelaide Thronicle, June 24, 1911. * Bir J. Macdonald desired that members of the Canadian Privy Council should be styled ‘ Right Hon.’, but this was refused ; see Pope, i. 391; ii. 4. * Hence Sir E. Barton is a Privy Councillor. Mr. Deakin has declined the honour, but Sir W. Laurier, Sir J. Ward, General Botha, Sir R. Bond, Mr. (now Sir L. 8S.) Jameson, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, Sir A. Hine, Mr. Merriman, Mr. Fisher, Sir E. Morris, Sir R. Cartwright, and Sir F. Moor of Natal, have accepted it.

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