BRITISH MALAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20337, 20 February 1928, Page 10

BRITISH MALAY

VISIT BY COLONIAL UNDERSECRETARY. (British Official Wireless. 7 (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 17. The Colonial Office announces that at tlio request of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, Colonial Under-secretary, will pay a short visit to the Straits Settlements and Malay States. He will be accompanied by Mr Creasy, of the Colonial Office, and Mr Lloyd,' secretary of the Research Grants Committee of the Empire Marketing Board. The principal object of Mr Ormsbv-Gore’s visit will be to report on the scientific and economic, developments in British Malay and in particular on the progress of the medical, agricultural, veterinary, forestry, and education departments. Mr Ormsby-Gore will leave England on March 15, and will arrive at Penang on April 6. He will leave Singapore on June 1, and will spend a fortnight in Ceylon on the erturn journey in order to visit the agricultural research stations in that island He expects to bo back in England in the first week of July. He hopes to pay a brief visit to the scientific and research stations at Buitenzorg in Java during the latter half of May. Mr Ormsby-Gore will confer with the colonial Governments regarding the recommendations of„ the Colonial Office conference of last year, and on matters ariffino- out of the Imperial agricultural research conference. His report, which will be analogous to that on his visit to British West Africa in 1926, will be presented to Parliament.