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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1178 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V the maintenance of the present rule against differential duties. Moreover, if the principle of differential duties were admitted, it would be very difficult to limit the application of the principle to agreements between particular Colonies. The New Zealand Memorandum points out that ‘ the vast limits of the United States bring that country into ready communication with Australia as well as with British America, and that it may be for the interests of the Austral- agian 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.’ These are the logical consequences of the adoption of the system of reciprocity agreements, but no such questions are involved in the establishment of a Customs union. It is observed in the New Zealand Memorandum that the measure proposed by the Colonial Governments may be used to make similar arrangements to those which were introduced in the treaty with France, devised by the late Mr. Cobden. Her Majesty’s Government would certainly have no ground for objection if the Colonial Governments proceeded upon the principles which were acted upon by this country in the case of that treaty. Instead of establishing differen- tial duties, the British Government extended to all countries the benefit of the concession made to France ; and, far from seeking any exclusive privileges for British trade, they cherished the hope, unfortunately now frustrated, that the treaty would pave the way to the complete adoption by France of the system of free trade with all nations. Some stress is laid upon the agreement made in 1867 between Victoria and New South Wales respecting the duties on the land frontier between the two Colonies, as affording a precedent for reciprocity agreements between the Colonies. It appears to me that the agreement of 1867 was rather of the nature of a limited Customs union. No differential duties were imposed under it upon goods entering the ports of Victoria or New South Wales; but, so far as concerned commercial intercourse by land, the two Colonies were united, the loss to the New South Wales Treasury by the arrangement, being redressed by a yearly payment of £60,000 by Victoria. The precedents in the case of the North American Colonies are, however, to a certain extent in point, as I have already admitted in my dispatch of July 13 last year. It may indeed be observed that, as the whole of the British Posses-

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