GOVERNORS-GENERAL.
METHOD OF APPOINTMENT. NOMINATION BY DOMINIONS. SANKEY’S COMMITTEE’S DECISION United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. •(Received Nov. 5, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4. As the outcome of an Imperial Conference decision to-day Australia’s next Governor-General will be recommended by the Australian, and not the British Cabinet. ' It was Lord Sankey’s Committee on Inter-Imperial Relations which unanimously decided that the constitutional practice by which His Majesty acts on the advice .of his responsible Ministers' will henceforth apply to Governors-General throughout the Empire as in other matters, and the Ministers in the Dominions concerned are the Ministers tendering and responsible for such.advice. Mr Scullin Waiting. In connection with the foregoing it may he inferred from Mr Scullin’s inaction in relation to the Australian vacancy since his first audience with His Majesty that he is waiting for the Cankey Committee's decision be endorsed by a Conference Plenary Session before tendering advice on a successor t.Q Lord Stonehaven.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18168, 5 November 1930, Page 5
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