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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1546 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII Suez Canal constitute a heavy charge, and tend to retard the trade within the Empire and with other countries, and invites the Government of the United Kingdom to continue to use their influence for the purpose of obtaining a substan- tial reduction of the present charges.’ (s) Celebration of the King’s Birthday! Agreement was readily arrived at to have an official celebration of the King’s birthday on June 3, but an attempt to make the King’s birthday Empire Day failed. New Zealand was ready to accept this, but Canada preferred to remain firm to May 24, and South Africa was unwilling to change that day; Australia admitted that it was really not a federal but a state question, and the matter dropped on Sir Wilfrid Laurier observing that the question was not worth a discussion. (t) Future Conferences On the last day of the Conference it was proposed by Mr. Fisher that, in the first place, there should be interchange of visits between the responsible ministers of the several Dominions, and that, in the second place, the Imperial Government should take into consideration the question of the possibility of holding a meeting of the Imperial Con- ference in one of the self-governing Dominions? The first part of his resolution was welcomed on all sides, and the Imperial Government gladly accepted it as far as they were concerned. But it was pointed out that the second part would raise considerable difficulties. Sir Joseph Ward and General Botha both laid some stress on the fact that it was impossible in the Dominions to collect the full apparatus of information which was provided by the Government departments in the United Kingdom, and pointed out the advantages which accrued from the ministers of the Dominions meeting at once all the ministers of the Imperial Government, which would not be the case if the Conference Ld. 5745, pp. 274-8. ? Ibid., pp. 433 seq.

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