TRAVEL TO LEARN

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 107, 7 May 1923, Page 7

TRAVEL TO LEARN

COLONIAL OFFICE AND

DOMINIONS

DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S SCHEME

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIOHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN . NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

. LONDON, sth May,' The Secretary of State, for the Colonies, the Duke of Devonshire, speaking at a London Chamber of Commerce dinner, made what he described as an unconventional sup<?estion, that the Colonial Office should be removed for a period from Downing Street and sent on a business trip to the Dominions, Crown colonies,: and protectorates^. He expressed the hope that the forthcoming Imperial Conference will not only add to mutual protection, but to the even greater and nobler task of using the forces and resources of the Empire for the prosecution of peace, throughout the world. It was the duty. of the Government to give those in congested areas with limited chances an opportunity to make

haPDT and properous homes overseas. *

Sir W. Joynson-Hicks (PostmasterGeneral) hoped that by the time the Conference was held there would be opratins ill Australia a wireless installation which would be able to keep statesmen there in touch with. Ministers at Home. . (.-.■■■ ■