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I am, therefore, instructed to respectfully bring the views of my Chamber under your notice, and to urge that in the interest of the Colonies, and especially our West Indian brethren, you may see your way to continuing as parties to the Convention.
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I have, &c.,
RICHARD ALLEN,
Secretary.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
July 8, 1907.
MR. SEAVERNS asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he was now in a position to communicate to the House any further information regarding the possible withdrawal of Great Britain from the Sugar Convention.
MR. RUNCIMAN (for Sir Edward Grey) in reply, said: "My right honourable friend is not in a position to make any further statement for the present. The proposal which His Majesty's Government has made is before the other Powers who are parties to the Convention, and it is not known what decision will be arrived at respecting it."
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No. 53.
BARBADOS:
THE ACTING GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received July 9, 1907.)
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quality of sugar; and, if so, what was the amount of the bounty so given, and by which of the Colonies.
THE UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (MR. CHURCHILL, Manchester, N.W.), in reply said:-"No bounties are given in any of the Crown Colonies. With regard to the Colonies possessing responsible govern- ment, the bounties which, as estimated by the Permanent Sugar Commission, are given in those Colonies, with the calculations upon which those estimates are based, will be found stated in the Papers [Cd. 2094] relating to the Sugar Convention, which were laid before Parliament in June, 1904."
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No. 55.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received July 9, 1907.)
The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.
Foreign Office,
July 9, 1907.
DESCRIPTION OF ENCLOSURE.
Name and Date.
Subject.
(No. 104.)
MY LORD,
[Acknowledged July 31, 1907.]
Government House, June 24, 1907.
I HAVE the honour, at the request of the Legislative Council of this island, to transmit to your Lordship'a copy of a resolution passed by that body on the 18th instant relative to the decision of His Majesty's Government to withdraw .com_the_Brussels Sugar Convention.
2. I enclose a report of the debate* in the Council on this resolution.
Count de Salis (Berlin), No. 140, Commercial, Sugar Convention.
July 4.
Copy also sent to Treasury, Board of Trade, and India Office.)
Enclosure in No. 55.
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
C.O.885
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(No. 19.)
I have, &c.,
(No. 140.
Commercial.)
S. W. KNAGGS,
SIR,
Acting Governor.
Enclosure 1 in No. 53.
Resolved that the Legislative Council of Barbados have heard with extreme disappointment and apprehension that His Majesty's Government have intimated that they can no longer remain a party to the Brussels Convention, thereby opening a door to the renewal of bounties and cartels, and involving serious loss, and possibly ruin to the West Indies.
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Legislative Council Chamber,
June 18, 1907.
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No. 54.
W. K. CHANDLER,
Senior Member Presiding.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
July 9, 1907. MR. CHARLES PRICE asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any of the Colonies in the British Empire give a bounty upon any kind or
AN article has recently appeared in "The Deutsche Zucker Industrie," the
Berlin, July 4, 1907. principal organ, I understand, of the German sugar producers, on the subject of the communication recently made by you to the Belgian Government with regard to the policy to be pursued by His Majesty's Government on the expiry of the term of five years fixed for the minimum duration of the Sugar Convention.
The writer concludes that it would be quite unacceptable that the United Kingdom should remain a party to the Convention and at the same time be dispensed from enforcing its penal provisions. German sugar would in this case have to compete in the English market against bounty-fed sugar
"without having any special weapons at its disposal." English makers of sugared products would be able to manufacture with cheap bounty-fed sugar, and thus compete with even greater success in the world's markets against their rivals, whose Governments would be debarred by the Convention from giving them the same advantage, or from giving them protection in their home markets except to the very limited extent which the Convention allows.
The English proposal should therefore be rejected. What then will be the position?
In the opinion of the writer there is no serious wish among German producers for the re-establishment of the bounty system. Should the Convention be prolonged without England, the principal objects to be attained are:—
1. Security against re-introduction of bounties by other States.
• Not printed.
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• See pages 328–330 of “The Sugar Cane," for July, 1907.
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