CHAP. VII] MERCHANT SHIPPING 1215 
Parliament, directed against Asiatics. It forms, therefore, a 
direct contradiction to the policy which has been consistently 
adopted against such discriminations, and it is not.to be 
wondered at that the Imperial Government, during the 
discussion at the Imperial Conference of 1911, found itself 
anable to undertake to secure the royal assent to the Bill, 
which therefore cannot take effect 1 
- See Parl. Pap., Cd. 5745, pp- 395 seq.; below, Part VIII, chap. iii. 
For the limitation of the Commonwealth power of legislation as regards 
purely state shipping, see Owners of 8.8. Kalibia v. Wilson, 11 C. L. R. 
589 ; above, pp. 868-71. Tor the saving of the validity of local navigation 
“ules in harbours, &e., sce 57 & 58 Viet. c. 60, s. 421 ; below, p. 1525, n. 2.