AN AUSTRALIAN SELECTED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 4 December 1930, Page 11

AN AUSTRALIAN SELECTED.

office of generalt gjR ISAAC ISAACS. COJJMBNT ON THE APPOINTMENT ■aftfiSS ASSOCIATION —2LHCTHIC r wIJ . 0EA pH— COFYBIOHT.) /Received December 3rd, 10.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 3. Considerable surprise has been occaoaed by Sir Isaac Isaacs's appointment S ° Governor-General, although he is " da in the highest esteem. Lady W S recently returned from a trip broad* Thero are two dau S hters » Mr 3 j,rid Cohen, of Sydno - Vl and Mra j e ften Cnllen, of Singapore. Tie "Sydney Evening News" says: "Certainly Australian opinion is not Simons in favour of the appointtof an Australian, but the lack of Lnimity has nothing personal in it. aere is no more outstanding Ausand no one better deserving of King the King's representative, than & fjsae Isaacs. He iB a very distin- ; Billed lawyer who has filled and has forced many public offices." lis Sydney "Sun" says: '-While gj ,ppointment of Sir Isaac Isaacs is itoiieewion to Australian sentiment, it oflit a singularly unhappy time. It jl ptrfeetly certain to colour British MPS almost BUrO to affect tho Jllneial isiue between tho two coundijj, To many Britons it will be as jjjjiave struck away a hand offered il itllowßhip. 'They wish to walk i|m »nd we will not intrude'—that fUI undoubtedly be the response of the sjjtiih people who think about these dip." HISTORIC CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE. IHBBB POINTS OF INTEREST. (Received Deoember 3rd, 7.10 p.m.) I/)NPON, December 2. Kevepapen are giving great prominent to the appointment of the Chief Jjjtipa of Australia, Sir Isaac Isaacs, U Governor-General of Australia. 11m "Daily Express" describes it first illustration of an historic dutngt in the constitutional relationships between th* Dominions and the Mother Country arising from the Imperial Oonlerence, in which a nativelorn Australian has been appointed Gorenwr-Geawd o| tho Commonwealth . The paper proceeds to emphasise that the announcement was made from Australia House, not as hitherto, in the "London Gazette." U» third point of : «xtrm» interest, adds the paper, is the wording of tb» announcement. Tin King, on the recommendation of HjJ. H. Soallln, hM appointed, etc." also points out that in the ]Nn ease the Dominions Office was mm of the appointment until the Hsroement wa« made from Austria Horn TO TAKE OFFICE IN JANUARY. many congratulations RECEIVED. (EKeived December 3rd, 8.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, December 3. Sit Isaac Isaacs, Chief Justice of the I®s ©Bit of Australia, will be sworn 8 M <Somnor-General of Australia "Sfytk* middle of January. He is " yMWII in Sydney presiding over a s"By ieard case;

Way he received hosts of congratuand telegrams, ft.* Paging the congratulations of Jp Bar, he said: "I am humbly and J*™? pateful to my King for the honour he has graciously con•KiWipii me, and I trust that I shall «*«thy of it."

.KING'S CONSENT. SIGNIFICANCE OP THE .APPOINTMENT. (Be«iv«a December 3rd, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, December 3. in a leader, says: "Sir »ltw 4 B ' lmß waß apparently subto the Bang without any alterjaj'formal preliminary conversaeat.#U lost significant to those (Wy * or the maintenance of the Sib .♦V 0 '? *Ua remaining vital : Australians may re* a A v f n , ta^ of ieavin s the v highest post as a prize J, ho taken sides in Party • % Wotihf R ' so reflect that any ni? #» 4 tendency of drift "fenlitrt 6 * Dominions is hardly improve their standWrl/" 4 " 111 «w eyes of riffU t King WUB un " ®wi. . confirming the t an risk of an election anH *?, 4i® erence between the „ mm °owealth GovernScjjk. "S all the forces of RepubVS 3™?>«nism, anti-Imperial-lt>aS na ticism is not .Aweaker Sovereign *** Wt his Minister's ad»v,a political embarft* f-.i ~ man ifest inexperience, offered place !? Mt C#nw!L faith before Stager for if; v?"^ 0 case a " Ifttßt b* Ma i est y'B consent, but P* res ®rved for use if a 011 ci,2rk to governorGENERAL. '■®®oeired rv. " 3rd, U. 50 p.m.) December 2. ta ?,te fWoqjj, i) el^ n Ph's" gossiper, a*'« ri^)es t ' l e ang ®Uipj re » na o£ ts *e romances of lis career, as <C 9 fWic as « boy clerk C^, n 'ativ e 0 t /l 8 ST! d en "3 ns the 2* 41v e ? in ? is to i oin °w»»ny of self-made im-

REFERENCES TO THE INNOVATION. WIDENING THE SPHERE OF ACTIVITY. (Received December 3rd, 7 p.m.) LONDON, December 3. Mr J. H. Thomas, speaking at a farewell dinner to ' Lord Clarendon (newly appointed Governor-General ot South Africa), referred to "the great change and innovation which I nope and pray will be a success. For the first time in the historv of the British Constitution, the King has appointed as Governor-General a very distinguished Australian." Mr C. H. te Water, High Commissioner of South Africa, who presided, said that new confidence had been created in recent years, and a closer bond formed between the GovernorGeneral and the executive, resulting in the widening of the sphere of activity of tho Governor-General in future.

SIR ISAAC ISAACS'S CAREER. Tho Rt. Hon. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, P.C., 1921, K.C.M.G., 1923, member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council since 1924, and a justice of the High Court of Australia since 1906, was born in Melbourne in 1855, and was educated at Beechworth Grammar School and Melbourne University, where he graduated in law with first-class honours. He was admitted to tta Victorian Bar in 1880, and became a Queen's Counsel in 1899. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1892 to 1901, when he retired to become a member of tho Federal Parliament. He was Solicitor-General of Victoria in 1898. Attorney-General 1894 and 1900, and a member of tho Australian Federal Convention of 1897, which framed the Commonwealth Constitution , of the Royal Commission on Parliamentary Procedure, 1894: memlver of the Federal House, 1901-B: _At-torney-General of Australia. J905-6; and Acting-Chief Justice, 1927 and 1929.

Sir Isaac Isaacs was appointed Chief Justice in succession to Sir Adrian Knox, who retired early this year.