A SEPARATE COLONY
ISLAND OF DOMINICA BILL BEFBRE HOUSE OF LORDS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright RUGBY, November 18. (Received November 19, at noon.) In. the House of Lords the Parliamentary Secretary for Colonies moved the second reading of the Dominica Bill, which seeks to separate Domujica from the colony of Leeward Islands and make it a separate colony. If the Bill became law, he said, it was intended that Dominica should be governed in future as a part of the Windward Is*a Lord Elibank, in supporting the Bill, said it was the culmination of a very difficult controversy, which had been going on for many years. There was no one in Dominica who would not welcome the Bill. JTfae Bill was read a second time.
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Evening Star, Issue 22810, 19 November 1937, Page 10
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129A SEPARATE COLONY Evening Star, Issue 22810, 19 November 1937, Page 10
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