First Colonial Conference
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The First Colonial Conference met in London in 1887 on the occasion of Queen Victoria's jubilee.
Among other things discussed, the colonies in Australia and New Zealand agreed to pay 126,000 GBP per annum towards the Royal Navy to help pay for Britain's naval deployments in the Pacific. In exchange, however, the British govennment agreed not to reduce its Pacific Squadron without colonial consent.
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