MINERAL RESOURCES.
THE IMPERIAL BUREAU.
UNION 7 WITH INSTITUTE/ Bcuter. ■ _' ' IXDNDON. May, 18. ■• A bill has been introduced in the House of Lords by Lord Arnold, Under-Secretary of State' for the Colonies, reconstituting the Imperial Institute and amalgamating with it the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau. ' • - , : ".!; ; ;
' The bill ' provides r that the institute trustees /shall ; in future consist of the Lord President of the Council, the First Commissioner of the Treasury, the Secretaries of the Colonies and ; India, the President of the Board of Trade, and the Secretary of the Overseas Trade Department, the • last-named being responsible to the Minister. _ ''
v The bill also provides .that the board of governors shall consist of responsible Ministers, one representative each from the Dominions and India, the Treasury, the Board of Trade,, the Colonial Office, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Department of Scientific Research ; also not more than 110 representatives of scientific and commercial interests, v including . three governors of : the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau.' :
The appointments are proposed under the bill to be for three years.
; The Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau was incorporated by Royal Charter on June 12, 1919. Its purposes /are(l) To collect, co-ordinate and disseminate information ;-.] as to the resources, production, treatment, consumption, and requirements of every mineral and metal; (2) to ascertain the scope of existing agencies with a view ultimately to avoid any unnecessary overlapping that may prevail (3) to devise means "whereby existing agencies can, if necessary, be assisted and improved '■■ in the accomplishment of :'■ their respective tasks; (4) to supplement these agencies, if necessary, in order to obtain any information not now collected which may ho required for the purposes of the bureau and (5) to advise on the development' of the mineral resources of the Empire or of particular parts thereof, , in order that such resources may be available for the purposes of Imperial defence, industry, or commerce. »' . ' ' * ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18713, 20 May 1924, Page 7
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