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 VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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1538 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII optimism of Mr. Pearce as to extra trade, they feared a heavy additional loss on the Pacific cable, and a line to Canada could not receive sufficient business to render it profitable. On the other hand, the Imperial Government developed a practical scheme of wireless telegraphy,! including the construction of a series of high power stations beginning in England, then in Cyprus, Aden, Bombay, Straits, and Western Australia, thence to New Zealand by land line and cable or wireless telegraphy.? This was accepted by Australia and New Zealand, and welcomed by South Africa as a preliminary to an extension to that Union via East or West Africa. As regards universal penny postage 3 the Imperial Govern- ment were unable to accept the proposal in its full extent, as the loss would be very heavy and would not be made up by the increased number of letters sent, since the expense of handling long-distance letters and the reply was over 13d. There was a loss, though a diminishing one, on the penny inter-Imperial postage, and there was a loss which was being gradually diminished, and would in thirteen years disappear, on the penny post to America. Moreover, practically no foreign country was willing to face the loss, and therefore only a general resolution in favour of the reduction of postage could be carried, New Zealand declaring her inten- tion of continuing her individual efforts at introducing at least a unilateral penny postage, and Australia ¢ declaring for reciprocity. ' Cd. 5745, pp. 323-32. * The existence of wireless telegraphy between Australia and New Zealand is already assured by the erection of stations with 1250 miles day radius in New Zealand and Australia, while Fiji is to be connected with the Solomon Islands, Ocean Island, and the New Hebrides by wireless telegraphy. The cost of the Straits station was to be divided between Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, and the details to be settled by a committee with representatives of either Dominion. * Ibid, pp. 315-23. * In Australia penny postage with the Empire dates only from 1911.

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