1482 IMPERIAL UNITY [PART VIII 
The Conference, with the exception of His Majesty's 
Government, reaffirmed the resolutions of the Conference 
of 1902 as to preferential trade,! while His Majesty’s Govern- 
ment concurred in resolutions in favour of supporting British 
manufactured goods and British shipping. His Majesty’s 
Government, however, were only able to concur in the reaffir- 
mation of the resolutions of the Conference of 1902 as to 
coastwise trade, subject to the omission of the words dealing 
with trade between the Mother Country and the Colonies. 
The Conference agreed that inquiry should be instituted as 
to how far it was possible to make the privileges conferred and 
obligations imposed upon the Colonies by existing commercial 
treaties uniform throughout the Empire, and that all doubt 
should be removed as to the right of the Dominions to make 
reciprocal and preferential fiscal agreements with each other 
and with the United Kingdom? 
Resolutions were passed in favour of uniformity as regards 
trade marks and patents, trade statistics, and company law, 
and in favour of the establishment of reciprocity throughout 
the Empire with regard to the examination and authorization 
of land surveyors It was also recommended that inter- 
national penny postage should be aimed at and that landing 
licences for cables should be restricted to twenty years, and 
that subsidies should only be paid on the principle that half 
the receipts, after a fixed gross revenue had been earned, 
should be utilized for the extinguishment of the subsidy, and, 
by agreement, for reduction of the rates. 
It was also agreed to consider on what conditions naturali- 
zation * in one Dominion should be made effective in other 
parts of the Dominions, a subsidiary Conference to be held if 
necessary, and that if possible a service for mail, travel, and 
transport purposes should be devised for connecting Great 
‘ Parl. Pap., Cd. 3523, pp. 33 seq., 228 seq., 432 seq. 
' Parl. Pap., Cd. 3523, p. 468. It does not seem that there is any real 
room for doubt as to this matter. No treaty prevents inter-Imperial or 
inter-Colonial preferences. Cf. Parl. Pap., Cd. 3395, 3396, 4080. 
# A Conference on this was held in London in May 1911 ; see Pari, Pap., 
Cd. 5273, pp. 124-35; 5776. 
! Parl, Pap., Cd. 3523, pp. 178-82, 533-41; 3524, pp. 92-160,