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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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1482 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII The Conference, with the exception of His Majesty's Government, reaffirmed the resolutions of the Conference of 1902 as to preferential trade,! while His Majesty’s Govern- ment concurred in resolutions in favour of supporting British manufactured goods and British shipping. His Majesty’s Government, however, were only able to concur in the reaffir- mation of the resolutions of the Conference of 1902 as to coastwise trade, subject to the omission of the words dealing with trade between the Mother Country and the Colonies. The Conference agreed that inquiry should be instituted as to how far it was possible to make the privileges conferred and obligations imposed upon the Colonies by existing commercial treaties uniform throughout the Empire, and that all doubt should be removed as to the right of the Dominions to make reciprocal and preferential fiscal agreements with each other and with the United Kingdom? Resolutions were passed in favour of uniformity as regards trade marks and patents, trade statistics, and company law, and in favour of the establishment of reciprocity throughout the Empire with regard to the examination and authorization of land surveyors It was also recommended that inter- national penny postage should be aimed at and that landing licences for cables should be restricted to twenty years, and that subsidies should only be paid on the principle that half the receipts, after a fixed gross revenue had been earned, should be utilized for the extinguishment of the subsidy, and, by agreement, for reduction of the rates. It was also agreed to consider on what conditions naturali- zation * in one Dominion should be made effective in other parts of the Dominions, a subsidiary Conference to be held if necessary, and that if possible a service for mail, travel, and transport purposes should be devised for connecting Great ‘ Parl. Pap., Cd. 3523, pp. 33 seq., 228 seq., 432 seq. ' Parl. Pap., Cd. 3523, p. 468. It does not seem that there is any real room for doubt as to this matter. No treaty prevents inter-Imperial or inter-Colonial preferences. Cf. Parl. Pap., Cd. 3395, 3396, 4080. # A Conference on this was held in London in May 1911 ; see Pari, Pap., Cd. 5273, pp. 124-35; 5776. ! Parl, Pap., Cd. 3523, pp. 178-82, 533-41; 3524, pp. 92-160,

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