Postal savings

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Identifikator:: 869930397

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-49420

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kemmerer, Edwin Walter http://d-nb.info/gnd/101827717

Title:: Postal savings

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Humphrey Milford

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 176 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter IV - Depositors and deposits

Collection:: Economics Books

yaar. tn] THE CONFERENCE OF 1911 1401 8. The law of Conspiracy : That the members of this Conference recommend to their respective Governments the desirableness of submitting mea- sures to Parliament for the prevention of acts of conspiracy to defeat or evade the laws of any other part of the Empire ; that the Imperial Government make similar representations wo the Governments of India and the Crown Colonies. 9. Nationalization of the Atlantic cable : That this Conference strongly recommends the nationaliza- tion of the Atlantic cable in order to cheapen and render more effective telegraphic communication between Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand by thus acquiring complete control of all the telegraphic and cable lines along the ‘ all red route ’. 10. Coinage and Measures : That with a view to facilitating trade and commerce throughout the Empire the question of the advisableness of recommending a reform of the present units of weights, measures, and coins ought to engage the earnest attention of this Conference. 11. Imperial Appeal Court : That it is desirable that the judicial functions in regard to the Dominions now exercised by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should be vested in an Imperial Appeal Court, which should also be the final court of appeal for Great Britain and Ireland. 12. Co-operation and mutual relations between the naval and military forces of the United Kingdom and those of the Dominions and the status of Dominion navies. The resolutions proposed by the Government of the Union of South Africa! for discussion at the Imperial Conference were of considerable interest and importance, and they touched upon certain points which had not been suggested for discussion by any other Dominion Government. In the first place, it was desired by the Union Government definitely to raise the old question as to the division of the Colonial Office and the placing of the Dominions Department and the Imperial Secretariat under the control of the Prime Minister. The origin of this idea must be ascribed to Mr. Deakin, who, at the Colonial Conference of 1907, pressed energetically that the status of the Dominions should 1 Parl. Pap., Cd. 5513, p. 16.

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