STATE GOVERNORS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12410, 27 November 1908, Page 3

STATE GOVERNORS.

THE SOUTH

AUSTRALIAN

PKOPOSAL.

EABL w OBEWE'S REPLY,

[Pbess Association— Copyright.] : Adelaide, Nov. 25. In the Stat9 Ass6mbly, the Premier tabled Earl Crewe's ' despatch with refrence to the apuointment of

State

Governors.

Tbe

despatch

says: "The suggestion that appoint- * ments should be made from Australian citizens involves a far-reaching change whicb could not be . enter- • tamed in an> case unless applied to all Australian States, and not one alone, and until public opimoi demonstrated overwhelmingly in its favour." The Sometsry of State for the Colonies auut : "Ko doubt much is to be said in favour of tbe Canadian system, under which th.e> Central Government- -appoints .'- -Provincial Governors. If the people of Australia desired a similar system the Imperial Government, in all probability, would be disposed to ad rise the King to meet their wishes "