IMPERIAL INSTITUTE
LONDON, February 6. In view of the withdrawal of overseas contributions consequent on financial difficulties,' the Imperial Institute has api pointed a committee to consider: —(1) What functions now discharged by the institute are considered essential; (2) whether these should be , continued by the institute or attached elsewhere, and in this connection the committee is to consider the functions of other research organisations. The committee was also directed to re port on the functions of the Imperial Institute, and to what extent the intentions of the founders and the Royal Charter are being carried out; also to suggest improvements which it considers financially practicable if it recommends that the institute shall be continued on the existing basis. Major Ormsby-Gore (Under-secre-tary of State for the Colonies) is chairman of the committee, which includes Sir Joseph Cook, Sir James Allen, and other High Commissioners, and Lord Islington.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3596, 13 February 1923, Page 21
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