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-

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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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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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cua. vi] TRADE RELATIONS AND CURRENCY 1171 Her Majesty’s subjects throughout the Empire, and no- where more than in Australasia, have manifested, on various occasions of late, their strong desire that the connexion between the Colonies and this Country should be maintained and strengthened, but it can hardly be doubted that the imposition of differential duties upon British produce and manufactures must have a tendency to weaken that con- nexion, and to impair the friendly feeling on both sides, which I am confident your Government, as much as Her Majesty’s Government, desire to preserve. I have thought it right to state frankly and unreservedly the views of Her Majesty's Government on this subject, in order that the Colonial Governments may be thoroughly aware of the nature and gravity of the points which have to be decided ; but I do not wish to be understood to indicate that Her Majesty’s Government have, in the present state of their information, come to any absolute conclusion on the questions which I have discussed. The objections which I have pointed out to giving to the Colonies a general power of making reciprocal arrangements would not apply to a Customs union with a uniform tariff, and although such a general union of all the Colonies is, it appears, impracticable, it may be worth while to consider whether the difficulty might not be met by a Customs union between two or more Colonies. In reply to this dispatch there was a meeting of Premiers n Melbourne in 1871! when it was agreed to press further apon the Imperial Government the desire to be given a free nand in these matters of inter-colonial preference. To these dispatches a reply was sent by Lord Kimberley on April 19, 1872.2 in the following terms :— Her Majesty’s Government have had before them your Dispatch, No. of the of , and also the dispatches from the Governors of the other Australasian Colonies, of which copies are enclosed, in reply to my circular dispatch of July 13 of last year. } As the resolutions signed by the delegates of the Australian Colonies, and the memorandum conveying the views of the New Zealand Government relate to the same subject, it will be convenient that I should deal with them in the same dispatch. Her Majesty’s Government have no desire to enter upon Parl. Pap., C. 576, pp. 13 seq., 18 seq. ? Ibid., pp. 6 seq.

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