CHAP. 1] THE GOVERNOR 97 
who was appointed to be Governor of South Australia. The 
salary was reduced before he actually took up office, but 
there had been notice given of the possibility of reduction, 
and though Mr. Chamberlain informed Sir F. Buxton that 
he was entitled to withdraw his acceptance of office he 
declined to avail himself of the permission. Again, during 
the financial difficulties in Queensland during the drought 
a deduction was made from all official salaries : the Gover- 
nor’s salary was left untouched, but Sir Herbert Chermside 
generously surrendered a proportional part of his own free 
will until times should improve. As a matter of fact, how- 
ever, the amount of the salary is comparatively unimportant 
compared with the question of allowances: for example, the 
official salary of the Governor of Victoria is £5,000, but no 
staff is provided; that of the Governor of South Australia 
is fixed at £4,000, but practically nothing else is paid, and he 
must, in addition to paying income tax, provide himself with 
a staff at his own expense, an attempt to increase the allow- 
ances failing in 1910. Or again, the Governor of Tasmania 
receives only £2,500 and an allowance of £250 for a private 
secretary, and the Labour party defeated an attempt in 
1910 to grant an extra £500 for travelling. The practice 
as to upkeep of house and grounds varies very much from 
place to place and from ministry to ministry.2 In the case 
of Canada the salary and large allowances have been sufficient 
to uphold the dignity of the office, and since an attempt 
in the very early days of responsible government in the 
Dominion there has been no serious project of reduction.’ 
In the Commonwealth the attempt to secure in 1902 an 
increase of salary by way of an entertainment allowance for 
Lord Hopetoun resulted in the refusal of the Commonwealth 
! See Parl. Pap., C. 7910 (1895). 
* New South Wales is particularly generous, Vietoria much less so, 
as a result of the presence there of the Federal Government. Western 
Australia in 1010 increased the Governor's allowances. For South 
Australia, see House of Assembly Debates, 1910, p. 601; for Tasmania. 
Mercury, Nov. 1, 1910; for Queensland, Debates, cii. 209 seq. 
¢ Canada Sess. Pap., 1869, No. 73; Pope, Sir John Macdonald, ii. 15. 
The attempt lost Canada Lord Mayo as a Viceroy. 
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