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Thirteenth Day.

8 May 1907.

(Chairman.)

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Universal Penny Postage, on which I wish to know what Sir Joseph Ward wishes to do, and the two subjects which have been discussed at the Treasury -Double Income Tax and the profit on silver coinage.

Sir WILFRID LAURIER: Then certainly we will not go through all that programme to-morrow.

CHAIRMAN: A good many of them are quite short.

Sir WILFRID LAURIER: But a good many of them would be long. CHAIRMAN: I do not know how we are to go through them any other day.

Adjourned to to-morrow at half-past 10 o'clock.

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FOURTEENTH DAY.

HELD AT THE COLONIAL OFFICE, DOWNING STREET, THURSDAY, 9TH MAY 1907.

Fourteenth Day.

9 May 1907

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PRESENT:

The Right Honourable The EARL OF ELGIN, K.G., Secretary of State for the Colonies (President).

The Right Honourable Sir Wilfrid Laurier, G.C.M.G., Prime Minister

of Canada.

The Honourable Sir F. W. BORDEN, K.C.M.G., Minister of Militia and

Defence (Canada).

The Honourable L. P. BRODEUR, Minister of Marine and Fisheries

(Canada).

The Honourable ALFRED DEAKIN, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth

of Australia,

The Honourable Sir W. LYNE, K.C.M.G., Minister of Trade and Customs

(Australia).

The Honourable Sir JOSEPH WARD, K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of New

Zealand.

The Honourable L. S. JAMESOs, C.B., Prime Minister of Cape Colony. The Honourable Dr. SMARTT, Commissioner of Public Works (Cape

Colony).

The Right Honourable Sir ROBERT BOND, K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of

Newfoundland.

The Honourable F. R. Moor, Prime Minister of Natal.

General The Honourable Louis BOTHA, Prime Minister of the Transvaal. The Right Honourable WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, M.P., Parliamentary

Under Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Sir FRANCIS Hopwoon, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Permanent Under Secretary

of State for the Colonies.

Sir J. L. MACKAY, G.C.M.G., K.C.I.E., on behalf of the India Office.

Mr. H. W. Just, C.B., C.M.G., Mr. G. W. JOHNSON, C.M.G.,

Mr. W. A. ROBINSON,

}Joint Secretaries.

Assistant Secretary.

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