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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
NOTE-The asterisk placed against some of the serial numbers indicates that the full print is in a Parliamentary Paper. The indexes are printed here for convenience of reference.
Serial
From or to whom.
Despatch
Date.
No.
No., &o.
1907.
Subject.
Page.
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6
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The Governor
Barbados, Confi- dential,
April 19 (Rec. May 14.)
Chamber of Coin- merce, Geelong.
Victoria
April 11 (Rec. May 18.)
3
To the Governor ...
Victoria, Miscel- laneous.
May 23
House of Commons
May 30
5
Sir E. Grey to Bir H.
Bergne.
June 1
6 The Charters Towers
Chamber of Com- merce and Mines.
Queens- land.
April 20 (Rec. June 3.)
Foreign Office Memorandum to M. Cambon.
June 4
Records his impressions in regard to the sugar question; expresses the opinion that cane sugar in Barbados can never compete with beet sugar, and that sugar culture must sooner or later die
out.
Urges the continuance of the Conven-
tion.
Requests that the Chamber of Com- merce, Geelong, may be informed of the receipt of No. 2, and that the question of continued adherence is receiving careful consideration. Mr. Lloyd George, in reply to a ques- tion by Mr. Robert Duncan, said that no separate record was kept by the Customs Department of the exports of machinery for sugar manufacture, and that the question of the revision of the classification of machinery in the official trade accounts would be considered by Departmental Com- mittee during the autumn,
Encloses copy of a despatch addressed to His Majesty's Ambassador at Brussels, containing His Majesty's Govern ment's decision with regard to the Convention, and authorizes him to read these instructions to the members of the Commission for their informa- tion.
Urges the extreme advisability of not withdrawing from the Convention.
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To the Governor
Queens- land,
June 4
Miscel-
laneous,
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Intimates the inability of His Majesty's Government to continue to give effect to the provisions of the Convention requiring them to penalise bounty-fed sugars, but that they are willing to remain a party to the Convention if they can be released, by special agree- ment, from these obligations.
Requests that the Secretary to "The Charters Towers Chamber of Com- merce and Mines" may be informed of the receipt of No. 6.
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