IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1930, Page 9

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION DEVELOPMENT OF EMPIRE AGRICULTURAL SERVICES (British Official Wireless.) Rec. ; 5.5 p.m. Rugby, June IS. The Colonial Office announces that the colonial conference will receive reports of the progress made since the previous conference held in 1927 and will consider certain developments which have taken place in the past three years. During that peiiod a colonial development fund has been established under which an amount not exceeding £1,000,000 has been . made available to aid and develop agriculture and industry in the colonial Empire, and the progress report will be’ considered by the conference. Further consideration will be given important proposals for combined agricultural service which arose partly from the discussions at the last conference on the organisation of scientific services. The question of the supply and censorship of cinematograph, films has also been examined by a committee and its report will be before the conference. A new’ committee, whose creation is directly due to a recommendation made at the last conference, has 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. The 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 service, though questions concerning public health and education, to which considerable attention is to be devoted, also come under it. Under the third heading the recommendations of the committee which has recently reported 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 close 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.