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1 Senior Probationer Nurse has been transferred to the Victoria Hospital thus setting free one Sister for work in the Government Civil Hospital.
I am endeavouring to engage 4 trained Japanese Nurses in Japan.
26th May, 1916.
F. H. MAY,
Enclosure 8.
HON. MR. POLLOCK AND THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
(Extract from the Hansard of 23rd December, 1915.)
Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., in accordance with notice of motion, asked the following questions :—
1. What steps is the Government or His Excellency the Governor taking to fill up the place of the late Mr. Hewett on the Executive Council? 2. Is it not the fact that I was a Member of the Executive Council, as Acting Attorney General, for periods of time amounting to nearly 3 years, and is it not the fact that I acted in addition as an Unofficial Member of that Council during the last absence on leave in Europe of Sir Paul Chater and Mr. Hewett respectively, in the years 1911 and 1912?
3. Has the Government or has His Excellency the Governor sent any Despatch, and, if so, when, to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies recommending any, and, if so, what person as successor to Mr. Hewett on the Executive Council ?
4. If any such Despatch has been addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has the Right Honourable Gentle- man been informed in such Despatch of the facts referred to in the above question 2? Will the Government lay such Despatch (if any) upon the table of this Council?
5. Will the Government recommend to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the two Unofficial Members of the Executive Council shall be elected Members, instead of being nomi- nated by the Government?
6. Will the Government recommend to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies that all the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council shall be elected, instead of two-thirds of them being nominated by the Government, and also that the number of Unofficial Members in that Council be increased ?
Enclosure 9.
(Extract from the Hansard of 23rd December, 1915.)
His Excellency replied as follows:-It is fitting that the Governor himself should answer these questions. The first four relate to the appointment of an Unofficial Member to the Executive Council. Under the Royal Instructions, which form part of the Constitution of the Colony, appointments to that Council are reserved as the sole prerogative of the Crown, and on me as the representative in the Colony of His Most Gracious Majesty the King devolves the sole responsi- bility of humbly submitting, through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for