COLONIAL CONFERENCE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 20 June 1930, Page 5

COLONIAL CONFERENCE

COMPREHENSIVE AGENDA EMPIRE DEVELOPMENT COLONIES’. SOCIAL WELFARE. (British Ollicuil Wireless.) RUGBY, June 18. The Colonial (Juice announces that tile colonial conference, which is to meet on June 28, will receive reports of the.progress made since the previous conierence held in 1927 and will consider certain developments which have taken place in tile past three years. During that period a colonial development lund has been established, under winch an amount not exceeding £l,090,000 has been made available to aid anti develop agriculture and industry m the colonial Empire, and the progress report will be considered l by the conference.

Further consideration will bo given important proposals lor combined agricultural service which arose partly from the .discussions at the last conference on the organisation of scientific services.

Tlie question of the supply and censorship of cinematograph films has also been examined by a committee and its report will bo before the conference. A new committee, whose creation is directly due to a recommendation made at the last conference, lias been established to give advice on educational matters in all the colonies.

The agenda falls into three heads —• Development, administration of scientific and technical departments, and general administration. Th.e first of these headings covers a wide range of subjects—cables and wireless communications, broadcasting, civil aviation (including air survey), meteorology and the development of air routes, railway and motor transport, films, and the development of fisheries. The second heading is mainly concerned with the organisation of scientific services, including agricultural sendee, though questions concerning public health and education, to which considerable attention is to be devoted, 'tilso come under it. Under the third heading the recommendations of the committee which lias recently reported l on the staffing of colonial services will be considered. The committee made an important proposal for the establishment of a unified colonial service, which will receive dose attention by the conference. The conference, will devote a plenary session to a discussion of the conditions affecting the social welfare of the populations of the colonies. A session will also be given to the question of prison administration and methods for -dealing with juvenile offenders.