Kaufmanns Herrschgewalt

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1009604546

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-71914

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Carnegie, Andrew http://d-nb.info/gnd/11866719X

Title:: Kaufmanns Herrschgewalt

Edition:: 5. Auflage

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Verlag von G.A. Gloeckner

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 221 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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whe CHAP. 1] THE GOVERNOR 87 I can therefore only repeat that the true interests of the Colonies, and the preservation of friendly and constitutional relations between the Colonies and this country will, in the opinion of Her Majesty’s Government, be best secured by adhering to the principles upon which the appointment of Governor has hitherto been made. None the less, the position taken up by Lord Knutsford did not prove possible of successful defence. The Marquess of Normanby was objected to by South Australia, and the appointment could not be proceeded with, and in fact the principle of consultation was in effect granted! Indeed, it was not reasonable to deny it, and it was said that the Government of New Zealand were consulted regarding Lord Onslow’s successor? The choice of able men is not so limited in the United Kingdom that the Government can ever be in a serious difficulty as to how to fill up a post, if for any good ground an objection is taken to a nominee of the Government. The result of consultation is not to transfer the control from the Government to the Colony : it merely ensures that the appointment when made shall be a popular one, and no Governor is likely to be induced to be unfair by the fact that a particular party accepted his appointment : he is normally quite well aware that the opposition would have accepted him just as readily as did the Government of the day. On the other hand, the Imperial Government have maintained their resolve not to allow suggestions for the appointment to be made, at any rate in any formal way, though every effort is made to humour individual idiosyncrasies, such as the apparent desire of New Zealand—the most democratic of all Colonies—for a peer at the head of the Government. § 2. THE GOVERNORS OF THE AUSTRALIAN STATES The question of the position of the Governor in the Australian States has, however, become somewhat pressing since federation reduced the importance of the position. * Dilke, Problems of Greater Britain, i. 366, v Canadian Gazette, xviii, 446.

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