TASMANIA'S NEW GOVERNOR
HIS APPOINTMENT QUESTIONED. Bv Telegrapa— Press Association—Copyright ... London, December 17. Mr. MacNeill,' M.P. for Donegal, in a Jengthy question referred to the Hon. W. E. Macartney's former Orange ''■ Grandmastership. '■■ /' '.. -. The Secretary of; Slate for the Color Hies (Mr. Lewis Harcourt) replied that he was satisfied that both in.experience and capacity Mr. Macartney would make a Buitable and acceptable Governor. On this ho had satisfied .himself before subpiitting his name to .tho King and the {fasmanian Government for concurrence. . ' WHAT MB.' MASNEILL ASKED. (Rec. December 19, 0.5 a.m.) , ..■■.-". London, December 18. Mr. MacNeill drew attention to Mr. Macartney's election to the.House of Commons in the Orange interest for South -'Antrim 'in 1885,. and his action, when Deputy-Master,-in expressing Unionist political opinions in'regard to Westdown election,' .which was questioned in the House of Commons on April 27, 1904. The speaker also asked whether the appointment was acceptable to the people of Tasmania, who were supporters' of Home Rule, arid the population of which contained a large Irish Nationalist element.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1627, 19 December 1912, Page 5
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170TASMANIA'S NEW GOVERNOR Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1627, 19 December 1912, Page 5
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