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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1086 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V strangers to the Commonwealth have been facilitated by an informal arrangement with India and J apan made in 1904.1 A reserved Bill (No. 85) of 1910 of New Zealand raises very serious questions. It provides that in the case of vessels trading or plying from the Dominion to the Common- wealth a duty of twenty-five per cent. of the passage money and freight shall be levied on contracts in respect of pas- sengers and goods conveyed by ships which have natives of Asia among the crew, unless indeed such ships pay the New Zealand rate of wages to their crews. The latter provision could not legally be enforced directly, as it would be ultra vires the New Zealand Parliament, but the former provision is not ultra wires, but is directly anti-Asiatic, and avowedly aimed at Asiatics, as stated in the Parliamentary Debates, and at the discussion at the Imperial Conference.? With the State Governments since federation the trouble has been the insertion in Acts of small differentiations against Asiatics eo nomine. In some cases the Imperial Government has succeeded in having changes made in such Acts. In 1900 Queensland passed a Bill to amend the Sugar Works Guarantee Acts, 1893-5, which contained an anti-Asiatic section, and which the Imperial Government declined to assent to, on a protest from Japan. Queensland in 1903 (No. 15) extended to all aliens a discrimination in an Act (No. 13) of the preceding year against Asiatics in the matter of the granting of agricultural advances, and in other legisla~ tion in 1904 (No. 18) and 1910 (No. 9) has adopted the language test as a ground of regulation. Tn 1908 the Upper House of Victoria cut out clauses against Asiatics in a Factory Act as unjust and improper; in 1909, by a free use of the name of the Imperial Government, the Government of New South Wales secured the restriction to Chinese of certain provisions in an Act regarding factories; in 1907 the Government of New Zealand made changes in a Factory Act in order to avoid reservation under the instructions to the Governor ; but on the other hand, Western Australia has passed several * Commonwealth Parl. Pap., 1905, No. 61. * Cf. Parl. Pap., Cd. 5745, pp. 395 seq. ; below, pp. 1211-5.

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