WEST INDIES.
Financial Advfser Appointed From Britain. DIFFICULTIES OF" COLONIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 23. The Secretary for the Colonies, Lord Passfield, has, with the concurrence of the Treasury, appointed Sir Sydney Armitage-Smith, Secretary-General to the Reparation Commission, to undertake a mission to the Leeward Islands and to St. Lucia, in the Windward Islands, as financial adviser. Sir Sydney will submit a report on the i avenue and expenditure, and will examine the post-ibility of improving the financial position of these colonie?. Their difficulties are due mainly to the depression in the • sugar industry, and to the hurricane which occurred in Dominica last summer.
Sir Sydney will also, with the Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands, Sir Cecil Stronge, form the commission which is about to be appointed to inquire into tile recent disturbances in the Carib Reserve in Dominica.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 96, 24 April 1931, Page 9
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