Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter IV. The immigration of coloured races

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1084 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [part v caused trouble. Queensland joined the J. apanese commercial Treaty of 1894 under a special protocol permitting the Queensland Government to interfere with Japanese immi- gration of the labouring classes; this arrangement became binding in 1901 on the Federal Government and Parliament, but in 1908 the Imperial Government at the request of that Government gave notice of the denunciation of the agree- ment under the power to do so reserved therein. With the Commonwealth Government trouble also arose because of the passing of the Commonwealth Post and Telegraph Act No. 12 of 1901, which forbade any contract with regard to the carriage of mails being entered into which applied to ships not manned by white labour.? This terminated the joint arrangements between the Imperial Government and the postal authorities of Australia for the carriage of mails, and the action of the Commonwealth was criticized as follows by the Secretary of State in a dispatch of April 17, 1903 :— 3 His Majesty’s Government much regret that the legislation which has recently been passed in Australia has made it impossible for them to be associated in future with the Government of the Commonwealth in any mail contract. They recognize the importance to the cause of Imperial unity of joint action in such matters as postal communication between the Mother Country and the great self-governing Colonies, and they would not on slight grounds withdraw from such co-operation; but the legislation in question, affecting as it does principally Indian subjects of His Majesty, leaves no other course open to them. By the Mutiny Pro- clamation of 1858 the Crown declared itself bound to the natives of its Indian territories by the same obligations of duty which binds it to all its other subjects, and undertook faithfully and conscientiously to fulfil those obligations. It would not be consistent with that undertaking for His Majesty’s Government to become parties to a contract in which the employment of His Majesty’s Indian subjects is * See Queensland Parl, Pap., 1899, A. 5. ® Cf. the Postal Act of the Union of South Africa No. 10 of 1911, which forbids the grant of such a contract to any steamship belonging to a 2ompany which engages in a ¢ combine’. * Parl. Pap., Cd. 1639, PP. 4, 8; Commonwealth Parl, Pap., 1903, Nos. 21 and 40. Cf. 1901-2. A. 92.

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