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GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S POWER DOMINIONS’ “ERRONEOUS” VIEW GREAT CIRCUMSPECTION URGED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nor. 5. “So few formal links are left which formerly bound the Empire together that the greatest circumspection must be used in tampering with them further.” says the Times!. “Certdinly a Imk would be severed if a Dominion Gov-ernor-General were to become merely the nominee of the Dpniitiion Government in power at tnhe of th© appointment. , 4 . /‘There seems to be an impression m some of the Dominions that tpe Governor-General is a mere lily figure, affixing his signature like a rubber stamp to Ministerial documents. No conception could be more erroneous. The GovernorGeneral represents the King, actrng as his Majesty wpuld if he resided m the Dominion. “It docs not follow that the Dominion Government should give up its voice 111 the selection of it Governor-General. There oughi to be no difliculty about a mutually satisfactory choice.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1930, Page 6
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