Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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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:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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1212 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V which claimed the right to control the sea between Tasmania and any part of the Australian continent. It was admitted by the Attorney-General in the Upper House that it might be possible to evade the provisions of 3. 2, and it is clear that s. 3 was inserted in the Bill as a means of meeting evasions of s. 2. It is indeed obvious that the provisions of s. 2 may be evaded ! by paying New Zealand rates while engaged in trading from New Zealand to Australia, but deducting from the total wages of the employees the excess rates so paid. In the case of discharges in Australia it is proposed by the Dominion Government that the Australian Government should secure that the crews should be properly paid in accordance with New Zealand conditions, but in cases of discharges abroad it was admitted that the law could be evaded. On the other hand, the New Zealand Government would enforce for the benefit of Australia similar provisions made by Commonwealth legislation. How in every case this was to be done was not stated, and is by no means obvious. It also appeared from the Debate that a main object of attack was the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, which at present has a steamship service to New Zealand. These vessels, which trade from Australia to New Zealand, do not seem ever to do coasting trade in New Zealand (if they did it seems that they could avoid difficulties for the time being by turning their Lascars into passengers and running the ships with white crews, as is done by the Union Company when they employ Lascars), but merely engage in trade between Australia and New Zealand, and of course trade with the United Kingdom and elsewhere. They compete, it seems, effectively with the New Zealand Union line and the Austra- ian Huddart-Parker line, and of course the rates of wages paid to Lascars, and in addition the conditions under which Lascars are carried, give them a real advantage in such competition. This might be prevented for British vessels by Imperial legislation ; of. the proposal of the Commonwealth at the Imperial Conference of 1911 in favour of legislation against conspiracy to evade the laws of one part of the Empire by the other parts ; Parl. Pap., Cd. 5513; 5745, pp. 244-6,

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