AUSTRALIA'S GOVERNOR.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY. SUPJPORTER OF ULSTER'S CAUSE. AN INCONVENIENT MEMBER. (Received 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, February S. The "Scotsman," in congratulating Australia in seeurini Mr R. C. Munro-Fer-guson as Governor-General, says that he has proved himself a patriot rather than a party man. His insistence that Ulster's cause should be fully considered made him an inconvenient figure in the Government's path. Other newspapers pay tribute to Mr. Munro-Ferguson as an independent politician and a strong Imperialist, and congratulate the Commonwealth on the suitability of the. appointment. The "Daily Telegraph" says that it is stated that the Government's land policy has rendered Mr. Munro-Ferguson's continued support of the official Liberal policy impossible, and his resignation was foreshadowed in various quarters. He was never in full sympathy with the Government, and but for his opposition to many provisions in the Scottish Land Bill he would have succeeded Baron Pentland as Secretary for Scotland.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 34, 9 February 1914, Page 5
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