PROBLEMS OF COLONIES

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1930, Page 13

PROBLEMS OF COLONIES

UNIFYING ORGANISATIONS

WORK OF CONFERENCE REVIEWED.

NURSING OF AGRICULTURE URGED

British Wireless.

Rugby, July 15.

At the final plenary session of the colonial conference to-day Lord Passfield, Colonial Secretary, reviewed the work done. Among the matters discussed during the three weeks were problems relating to colonial development, communications, broadcasting, civil aviation, rail and motor transport, films, fisheries and many trade problems. The committees also considered the question of the unification of the colonial organisation, of a unified colonial agricultural service, colonial forestry services and research, labour organisation and conditions, prison administration, treatment of juvenile offenders and questions of an administrative nature.

Lord Passfield emphasised that agriculture in one or other of its phases was and must always remain the productive enterprise of the colonies. He hoped a practical step would be taken at the conference in the direction of unified agricultural services of benefit in recruiting and in enabling the colonies to call in specialist agriculturists to help with the big problems which constantly recurred. He also referred to the approval of the idea of unification of the colonial services, on which agreement would have been difficult without examination and discussion in the. conference.