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

Collection:: Economics Books

1556 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII representatives of the United Kingdom and the Dominions, to examine into the natural resources and trade conditions of all the self-governing parts of the Empire, promises to be of real service and the solution of many problems regarding inter-Imperial trade. If no practicable scheme for an AL Red Route has yet been devised, the interest of the Govern- ments has already evoked an improvement in the services conducted by private enterprise, and the problem will no doubt ultimately be solved in this manner. The Postmaster- General was able to promise very substantial reductions both in deferred ordinary messages and in press telegrams, while the British Government somewhat unexpectedly presented for approval a scheme which will create a chain of wireless telegraph stations extending from England to Cyprus, Aden, Bombay, the Straits, and Western Australia. A minor postal reform was promised in the extension to Canada and Australia of the British Postal Order system. The discussion on emigration, if not directly fruitful in results, was of great value in that it disposed of the claim which has been made in England that the Government should give more active assistance to emigration. All readers of the discussion must realize that the existing emigration represents to the full all the population that Great Britain can spare for the Dominions, and that, taken on the whole, the existing emigration agencies, public and private, so fully meet the needs of the situation that the expenditure of Imperial funds nn emigration cannot be justified. The other discussions were in the main negative in result. The attempt to obtain for the Dominions wider legislative powers in matters of shipping broke down almost at once in view of the discrepancy of opinion which was revealed on the part of the several Governments as to the powers which they actually possessed as matters stood, while the Imperial Government was not prepared to surrender to the Dominion Legislatures powers to regulate British ships on the high seas, which must result de facto in a preference to foreign vessels, or in retaliation on British shipping by foreign Powers. Questions of revenue prevented the Imperial

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