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 V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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1166 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V The whole position was summed up by the Secretary of State in a dispatch of July 13, 1871.1! as follows :— { have had for some time under my consideration dis- patches from the Governors of several of the Australasian Colonies, intimating the desire of the Colonial Governments that any two or more of those Colonies should be permitted to conclude agreements securing to each other reciprocal tariff advantages, and reserved Bills to this effect have already reached me from New Zealand and Tasmania. {t appears that, whilst it is at present impossible to form a General Customs Union, owing to the conflicting views of the different Colonial Governments as to Customs duties, the opinion extensively prevails which was expressed at the Inter-colonial Conference held at Melbourne last year, in favour of such a relaxation of the law as would allow each Colony of the Australasian group to admit any of the products or manufactures of the other Australasian Colonies duty free, or on more favourable terms than similar products and manufactures of other countries. At the same time it has not been stated to me from any quarter that the subject urgently presses for the immediate decision or action of Her Majesty’s Government, and I trust, therefore, that any delay that may arise in dealing with it will be attributed to its true cause, namely, to the desire of Her Majesty’s Government to consider the subject deliberately in all its bearings, with a view to arrive at such a settlement as may not merely meet temporary objects, but constitute a permanent system resting upon sound principles of com- mercial policy. The necessary consultations with the Board of Trade and with the Law Officers have unavoidably been protracted to a late period of the session, and if Her Majesty’s Government were satisfied that they could properly consent to the removal of the restriction against differential duties, it would not be possible now to obtain for so important a measure the atten- tion which it should receive from Parliament. It is by no means improbable that the introduction of a Bill to enable the Australasian Colonies to impose differential duties might raise serious discussions and opposition both in Parliament and in the country, on the ground that such a measure would be inconsistent with the principles of Free Trade and pre- judicial to the commercial and political relations between the different parts of the Empire. And I feel confident that t Parl. Pap., C. 576, pp. 2 seq.

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