SHILLING CABLE SERVICE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10259, 10 June 1911, Page 5

SHILLING CABLE SERVICE.

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position of the Dominion Governments. The proposal was intended to meet what the Government believed some of the Dominions desired. lit did not imply that the Home Government was conscious of any deficiency in the Colonial Office machinery for all Imperial purposes. H MISCONCEPTION. Sir Joseph Ward stated that there was some extraordinary misconception as to the nature of the proposal. The Dominions would still retain a supreme decision. He failed to see how dangers could arise if the Conference relegated important matters to a sub-committee. Obviously, there must be complex subjects which could better be dealt with by a Standing Committee. However well the Secretary of State discharged his duties, there were matters, from a Dominion standpoint, which it was unfair and improper to ask the Secretary to undertake. The questions were of vital importance. Questions arising from previous Conferences had remained unsettled, and they were likely to remain so, for want of machinery to thresh out the details. He instanced the questions of the double income tax, death duties, the Suez Canal. The distance from Home increased the difficulties of Australia and New Zealand attending subsidiary Conferences, compared with representatives from other Dominions. The idea prevailed that, if the proposal was carried,' it would help the Imperial Council idea. He was satisfied that this would come when public opinion was ripe. SIR EDWARD MORRIS. Sir Edward Morris, Premier of Newfoundland, said the Conference illustrated, what little effective work it was possible to accomplish. MAKImG resolutions effective. The Hon, Mr Harcourt undertook to give effect before next Conference to all questions decided at this Conference. Mr Batchelor asked whether the array of resolutions passed at previous conferences had resuLEea iii concrete action, and instanced the question of nationalisation. Mr Harcourt said a general. resolution concerning naturalisation had been carried, but the moment that individual Dominions were consulted, acute differences arose. Sir Joseph Ward: That was due to the absence of machinery to carry out the details. General Botha: No Government would allow itself to be ruled by a Committee. Its creation might be a false step, tending to the breaking down more than the building up. PROPOSAL WITHDRAWN. The proposal contained in the memorandum was thereupon withdrawn. INTERCHANGE OF CIVIL SERVANTS. Sir Joseph Ward moved a resolution in favour of an interchange of selected Civil Servants.

UNDER CONSIDERATION.

Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock

MELBOUS2SE, June 9.

Mr Thomas is considering the establishment of a sbilldngra-word cable service to England over the Pacific lines.

The proposal is to cable to Canada, thence by mail to London, taking four days.