cmap. 1] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 969
actual position is quite different. In Canada the Lieutenant-
Governors do not preside in Council and do not debate with
ministers, not to speak of debating in Parliament. In the
South African Provinces it is contemplated that not only
will the Administrator speak in Council, but he will regularly
preside in Committee and debate with his advisers, or rather
his colleagues. He cannot dismiss them and he cannot
overrule them in any provincial matter. He must act as
the majority decides. Moreover, the Committee itself will
not be a political or party body; the mode of choice by
proportional representation with the single transferable
vote will probably secure that the members are not represen-
tatives of any one party at all : it is hoped that they will
simply be a body of men chosen as the most suited for
administrative work. New blood will be constantly intro-
duced by the fact that each new Council will elect a new
Committee, a power in which the Councils resemble county
councils in this country, and as the Council sits but three
years the Committee can hardly acquire any too great power.
Again, the right to go outside the Council will open up a wider
area of choice than mere selection from the Council would
allow. On the other hand, the members selected from the
Council will still retain their seats there and the right to vote.
The Councils! themselves are not to be political. In
each province a Council is created consisting of the same
number of members as there are elected by the province to
the Legislative Assembly, except that in Natal and the
Orange Free State the number of members shall be twenty-
five each. The members shall be elected in the same divisions
as for the Assembly, and the divisions in the Colonies of
Natal and the Orange River Colony were delimited by
the same Commission as delimited the divisions for the
Assembly elections, and on the same basis. The qualifica-
tions for electors and members are the same as in the
case of Parliamentary elections for the Lower House of
the Union. The Councils shall be summoned to meet by the
Administrator, who shall also be entitled to prorogue them,
1 aa 70-7.
