1304 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V
Chief Justices in all the larger places as almost a matter of
course, and the K.C.M.G. is hardly ever conferred on a judge
unless he also administers the Government from time to time,
as in the case of the Chief Justice of Canada, although this
rule is not absolutely without exception, as in the case of
Sir Pope Cooper, C. J. of Queensland, but he would normally
have been expected to administer, and his case is therefore
not normal. The Knighthood ! also is an appropriate mode
of recognizing the services of other than official persons.
Minor officers in the Civil Service are provided for by the
Imperial Service Order, instituted by His late Majesty
King Edward. This Order can be given either for long and
meritorious service or for service of special distinction, and
it has been conferred on many distinguished public servants
in the Dominions. Appointments to other Orders of Knight-
hood are rare in the extreme, though they are not unknown.
Such as they are, they are in the main confined to the
Order of the Bath, which has been granted in a good many
cases to military officers for Colonial services, and in some
cases to Colonial military officers. Membership of the Royal
Victorian Order has been conferred in certain cases, but only
bo persons who have come into personal contact with royalty.
Governors also receive honours as a matter of course.
The State Governors in Australia and the Governor of
Newfoundland receive the K.C.M.G. as a rule, and the
G.C.M.G. is appropriate to the Governors-General of Canada,
' Baronetcies are rare ; SirS. Way in 1899 is an exception; also Sir E.
Clouston, Canada, in 1908, Sir C. Tupper in 1888, and Sir J. Ward in
1911, a creation which evoked a bill brought in by a member of the
opposition in New Zealand to forbid the use there of hereditary titles.
Many Australian statesmen (e. g. Mr. Gillies, Mr. Higinbotham, Mr. Jenkins)
have refused to be put forward for any honour. Peerages in such cases
as those of Lord Strathcona, 1897, Lord Mountstephen, 1891, and Lord
de Villiers, are very rare, and in the first two cases the recipients reside
in England. The Crown has also recognized one French barony in
Canada and a Maltese nobility. An hereditary Upper House with baronet-
cies was proposed in Canada in 1791 (31 Geo. III. c. 81, gs. 6-11), but not
carried out; cf. Shortt and Doughty, Docs, rel. to Const. Hist, Canada, p. 665.
*e.g a CV.0. was given to Mr. J. Popo, Under-Secretary of State.
Canada. on the occasion of the Prince of Wales's visit in 1907.
