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 V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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CHAP. V] TREATY RELATIONS 1137 October 31, 1903, in which Mr. Lyttelton set forth his views on the guestion! Such feelings [‘ that in the Samoan arrangements the interests of Australia were too lightly regarded ’| appear to His Majesty’s Government to ignore the vast extent of territory in the Pacific Ocean which has been definitely brought under British control during the last thirty years. The whole of Fiji, some 88,000 square miles in the part of New Guinea nearest to Australia, almost all the great chain of the Solomon Islands, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the Cook group, and a large number of scattered islands have been added to the Empire during that short period. Most of those acquisitions have been made in consideration mainly (sometimes entirely) of the interests and sentiments of Australia and New Zealand. In the face of that record His Majesty’s Government leave it to your Ministers to say whether the Government and people of this country have been unmindful of the wishes of their kinsmen in the Southern Seas. Turning to the particular question of the New Hebrides, His Majesty’s Government observe that your Ministers suggest that a definite attempt should be made to secure the possession of the Islands by some readjustment, whether of territory or of privileges, elsewhere. They must see, how- ever, on reflection, that it would not be fair that a sacrifice should be made of another part of the Empire in deference to Australian wishes. Nearly thirty years ago Lord Carnar- von pointed out, in his dispatch of July 9, 1875, to the Governors of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and New Zealand, that © it would be impossible for a very large proportion of the taxpayers of this country to understand on what principle they should bear, whilst the Colonies immediately concerned should be exempted from, the burden of any expenditure that may be incurred in connexion with such places’ as Fiji or New Guinea. It would be no less difficult to explain to His Majesty’s subjects in another part of the Empire why their interests should be sacrificed in order to obtain for Australia the whole of the New Hebrides. His Majesty’s Government have felt it their duty to put before your Ministers as plainly as possible a side of the New Hebrides question which is sometimes forgotten. They have constantly to remember the fact which your Ministers also recognize, that they are trustees for the whole of the Lt Parl. Pap., Cd. 3288, p. 64.

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