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-

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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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1250 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V agree upon federation. The immediate result of federation was not simply the improvement of the forces in question, but eventually greater efficiency was evolved, and under the influence of a visit from Lord Kitchener in 1909 it was determined to adopt, by an Act of 1910, No. 37, amending an Act of 1909 (No. 15), a scheme which will provide com- pulsory military training for youths between the ages of 12 and 25, exemption being allowed only on physical grounds, though further exemptions are allowed from actual service. There will also be a small permanent force and a large par- tially trained militia force, while the Defence Act No. 20 of 1903 already embodied the principle of compulsory service by the male population in time of war. The history of events and the state of affairs in New Zealand is substantially the same. An Act of 1909 (No. 28) was amended in 1910 {No. 21) to extend compulsory training up to 25 years of age.l The same process of the withdrawal of the Imperial troops was applied to the Dominion of Canada, but it was considered necessary in the Imperial interest to maintain small garrisons at Halifax and Esquimalt, half of the cost of the latter being defrayed by Canada, in view of the importance of the naval establishment at these ports, for the service of the Royal Navy. These garrisons were finally withdrawn owing to the patriotic offer of Canada during the Boer War, when they undertook to maintain the garrisons at these places at their own expense. The change in naval policy which followed the Boer War rendered the maintenance of these ports of much less importance to the Imperial Government, and arrangements were finally made in 1910 with the Canadian Government to transfer, by Order in Council, the Admiralty property at these ports to the control of the Dominion Government, on the understanding that the necessary facilities for the docking and coaling of His Majesty's vessels of war would be given. and that the naval dockvards would * For these Acts see Parl. Pap., Cd. 5135 and 5582. * The offer was made in 1902 and finally accepted in 1905; see Parl. Pap., Cd. 2565, which gives a clear account of Canadian views as to the con- stitutional position ;: see also Canadian Annual Review, 1905, pp. 459-65.

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