On 25 April 1896, a general election was held in South Australia at which women exer cised their right to vote; about 66 per cent of the women whose names were enrolled recorded their vote. On 22 Jan. 1897, Sir Samuel J. Way, chief justice of South Australia, was appointed a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. On 22 March the Federal Convention held its first session at Adelaide, at which the first preliminary dfaft was pre pared. Mr. Kingston being defeated 1 Dec. 1899, resigned, and V. L. Solomon formed a ministry which was defeated on 7 December. F. W. Holder then became Premier. An Early Closing Act and a Workmen's Compensation Act were passed. In May 1901, Holder re signed in order to accept office in the Federal Parliament. He was succeeded in the premier ship by J. G. Jenkins, who held office in the Playford, Kingston and Holder cabinets. He undertook the difficult task of carrying consti tutional amendments rendered necessary by the adoption of the Federal Constitution trans ferring certain powers, functions and depart ments from the state to the Federal govern ment. He succeeded in carrying a measure re ducing the number of responsible ministers, re ducing the number of members of the Assem bly from 54 to 42, and reducing the number of the Council from 24 to 18. He resigned on 1 March 1905, and accepted the appointment of agent-general for South Australia in Lon don. A ministry of which Richard Butler was Premier then took office. A general election took place in May at which Butler's party was defeated and on 20 July he resigned, and was succeeded as Premier by Thomas Price who died in 1909 and was succeeded by A. H. Pcake whose party was defeated at the elections in April 1910 by the Labor party, and its leader, J. Verran, became Premier in June 1910, and held office until 17 Feb. 1912, when he .was defeated by Mr. A. H. Peake who held office until 3 April 1915, when he was defeated by the Labor party and Mr. Crawford Vaughan became Pre mier.
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