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.