§ Mr. STEEL-MAITLANDasked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any investigation has been carried out since the date of the last Imperial Conference by the Imperial Secretariat into the advisability of restricting the inter-dominion trade in the Pacific to British ships; and, if so, whether he will publish the conclusions reached and the reasons on which they are based?
§ Colonel SEELYIn view of the general attitude adopted by His Majesty's Government at the Conference of 1907 respecting the question of the restriction of Imperial trade to British ships, the question of applying such a restriction in the particular case of Pacific trade has not been further considered, more especially as the point has not been again raised by the Dominion Governments.