...parties to agree on any point would produce a deadlock. As the covering despatch argues, the Customs Convention does not represent a South African Customs...the consequences of a disruption of the Convention. Then again there are five systems of law and five systems of defence — the maximum of expense and...

...as have hitherto been devised. Of the present Customs Convention, Lord Selborne writes that ' ' it does not represent a South African customs policy...the consequences of a disruption of the Convention." What is required is a South African tariff, devised in the interests of South Africa as a whole, securing...

...parties to agree on any point would produce a deadlock. As the covering despatch argues, the Customs Convention does not represent a South African Customs...the consequences of a disruption of the Convention. Then again there are five systems of law and five systems of defence — the maximum of expense and...

...Yet the danger will be imminent unless the Colonies take another step forward towards Union. Can they stand still on the compromise embodied in the present...African tariff, based on the deliberate policy of the South African people, affording permanent free trade to all South Africans within South Africa, offering...

...Yet the danger will be imminent unless the Colonies take another step forward towards union. Can they stand still on the compromise embodied in the present...African tariff, based on the deliberate policy of the South African people, affording permanent free trade to all South Africans within South Africa, offering...

...Union Conference had been held in 1906, but Lord Selborne wrote of the Customs Convention that it ' does not represent a South African Customs policy...the consequences of a disruption of the Convention '.' In May 1908 another Conference was called at Pretoria to The Preconsider these two burning questions...

...the prosperity of the whole country. Even the Customs Convention was no true settlement, but a mere compromise between five Colonial Customs policies,...almost universally disliked, tolerated only because men shrank aghast from the consequences of the disruption of the Convention.' This correspondence led directly...

...Yet the danger will be imminent unless the Colonies take another step forward towards Union. Can they stand still on the compromise embodied in the present...African tariff, based on the deliberate policy of the South African people, affording permanent free trad.e to all South Africans within South Africa, offering...