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The second part of the resolution refers to the special restrictions, such as the marking of load lines, provisions as to manning, deckloading, and similar legislation, intended more especially for ensuring the safety of ships and their crews and passengers, the operation of which is confined to British vessels.
His Majesty's Government would be glad if your Ministers would take the resolution into consideration, and favour them with a full expression of their views on it.
I have, &c.
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His Majesty's Government would be glad if your Ministers would take the resolution into consideration, and favour them with a full expression of their views on it.
I have, &c., (For the Secretary of State),
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The SECRETARY OF STATE to the GOVERNORS.*
[Answered by Nos. 8, 6, 4, 5, 11, and 14.]
(General No. 1.)
MY LORD, SIR,
Downing Street,
February 16, 1903.
I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, to be laid before your Ministers, copy of a resolutiont passed by the Colonial Conference on the subject of the coasting trade and the laws affecting shipping.
The first part of the resolution, which refers to the advisability of taking action in the direction of refusing permission to carry goods or passengers from one British port to another to the vessels of nations which reserve the privilege of their coasting trade to ships of their own nationality, formed the subject of a motion of which notice was given on behalf of the Government of New Zealand, and copy of which is enclosed.
So far as I am aware, the only part of His Majesty's Dominions where the coasting trade is at present restricted is in Canada, where the privilege of trading between Canadian ports restricted to British vessels and to the vessels of countries which open their coasting trade to British vessels. No restriction is, however, placed on trade between Canadian ports and British ports outside Canada, and the resolution contemplates the consideration of the propriety of restricting the coasting trade in the sense not only of trade between ports of a particular colony, but also of the trade between a port of the colony and any other part of the British Dominions.
At present foreign vessels do not engage in the coasting trade of this country in its more limited sense to any appreciable extent, while of the trade between the United Kingdom and His Majesty's Dominions beyond the seas about 10 per cent. only is carried in foreign bottoms.
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His Majesty's Government would be glad to receive as full information as your Ministers can give concerning the proportion in the colony under Government of the coasting trade, either in its narrower or its wider sense, which is carried in foreign ships, and especially in the ships of countries which reserve their coasting trade to ships of their own nationality. I enclose a list of such countries for the information of
your Government.
The second part of the resolution refers to the special restrictions, such as the marking of load lines, provisions as to manning, deckloading, and similar legislation intended more especially for ensuring the safety of ships and their crews and passengers, the operation of which is confined to British vessels.
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The Governor-General of Australia, and the Governors of New Zealand, the Cape, Natal, and Newfoundland.
† Printed at page xi of [Cd. 1299], October 1902.
Printed at page vii of [Cd. 1299],
Enclosure 3 in No. 2.
LIST of the PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES which RESERVE their HOME COASTING TRADE or their TRADE with OVER-SEA POSSESSIONS to NATIONAL VESSELS.
The principal countries, which reserve their home coasting trade to national ships are-
Russia, France,* Spain,t Portugal, and
The United States of America.
Those which reserve the whole or the greater part of their trade between their distant coasts and with over-sea possessions to national ships are—
Russia, and
The United States of America.
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The SECRETARY OF STATE to the GOVERNORS.‡ (General, No. 2.)
MY LORD,
Downing Street, SIR,
February 16, 1903. IN my despatch of to-day's date,§ I have enclosed a list of the principal countries which reserve their home or oversea "coasting trade" to national vessels.
2. Italy has not been included in that list, as its position is somewhat doubtful. The exercise of coasting trade in Italian waters is confined to vessels of those States which in virtue of international agreements allow the same treatment to the Italian flag.
As Article VIII. of the Anglo-Italian Treaty expressly declares that "the coasting trade is exempted from the provisions of the present treaty," it would appear that British vessels are not entitled to participate in the Italian coasting trade, but it has recently been ascertained that, in practice, British vessels are permitted by the Italian Government, as an act of grace, to participate in this trade, and do in fact participate at present, though to a very limited extent.
I have, &c.,
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• France also reserves the trade with Algeris.
(For the Secretary of State).
† Spain allows particular classes of Spanish goods (e.g., travellers' baggage, minerals, building materials, &c.) to be carried by foreign vessels from one Spanish port to another.
The Governors-General of Canada and Australia, and the Governors of New Zealand, the Cape, Natal, and Newfoundland.
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