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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T y 173 caar. vi] TRADE RELATIONS AND CURRENCY 117 ree from the obligation ; and they refer to the agreement between New South Wales and Victoria as to border duties, as a precedent for reciprocal arrangements between the Colonies. Lastly, the delegates who sign these resolutions, whilst they agree that efforts should be made in the Colonial Legislatures to provide for mutual freedom of trade, assert the right of the Colonies which they respectively represent to impose such duties on imports from other places, not being differential, as each Colony may think fit. The memorandum by Mr. Vogel, expressing the views of the New Zealand Government, commences by an examina- tion of the Acts which have been passed, giving to the British North American Colonies certain powers as to reciprocity with each other and with the United States ; it then proceeds to discuss the question of treaty obligation, and on this point it observes that ‘it is a matter which should create much satisfaction on broad and enlightened national grounds that the right of Her Majesty's Colonies to make between themselves arrangements of a federal or reciprocal nature, without conflicting with treaty agreements, has been re- cognized ’. The New Zealand Government think it would have been demoralizing to the young communities of Australasia had they been taught to believe that reciprocal tariff arrange- ments between the Colonies were inconsistent with Her Majesty’s Treaties with Foreign Powers, but that they could override the spirit of such treaties by the subterfuge or svasion of a Customs union’. They suggest that the object of the Zollverein Treaty seems to be to prevent the Colonies making such reciprocal arrangements with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as from time to time may be found desirable’, and they ask ‘ why a Foreign Treaty should contain a pro- vision tending to preclude the union of different parts of the Empire ? ° They urge that in considering the subject, the question should not be confined to that of mere inter-colonial arrange- ment. “It may be for the interest of the Australian Colonies, just as much as it has been for that of the British American Colonies, that arrangements should be made to admit free articles from the United States or from some other country. It is desirable that the Secretary of State should define the position of the Australasian Colonies in this respect.’ They conclude by pointing out that ‘ Great Britain must

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