IMPERIAL CO-OPERATION

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 124, 29 May 1933, Page 3

IMPERIAL CO-OPERATION

(From "The Post's" Representative.) • • LONDON/April 1& One of the recommendations-of tli4 Ottawa Conference was that -a Committee should bo appointed consisting of not more than two representatives of all the participating Governments to consider the means of facilitating, economic,consultation and co-operation between the several Governments of the Commonwealth, including a -survey of the functions, organisations, and financial bases of the ageueics how in existence. The Committee was requested to suggest alterations and modifications, if any, that were desirable in the existing machinery. , . . • The High Commissioner and Mr.; B. S. Forsyth (London Manager of tha Meat Board) represented-New Zealand, and during Sir Thomas .Wilford's absence on holiday he was represented by; Mr. F. T. Sandford (Secretary to th» High Commissioner's Department). The Committee met several times a week. since the Ottawa Conference and made ■ a thorough'survey of such'organisations as the Empire Marketing Board*, . the Imperial Economic Committee, and the research departments at. Torredon, Cambridge, Reading, and Aberystwith. The report has'now been drawn up and was signed .by all the'members of the Committee this week. It;is particularly notable that all the' members representing Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Irish Free. State, India, Bhodesia, Newfoundland, and: th» colonies were unanimous in thoir recommendations. The report will r be .published simultaneous!/, throughout th» Empire.. '..■ ; :, ■ ■• : ;